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TS     OF     MANUSCRIPTS 


FORMERLY  OWNED  BY 


DR.    JOHN     DEE 


WITH  PREFACE  AND  IDENTIFICATIONS 


BY 


M.   R.   JAMES,   LITT.D.,   F.B.A.,   F.S.A, 

PROVOST   OF  ETON 
SOMETIME   PROVOST   OF    KING'S   COLLEGE,   CAMBRIDGE 


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FOR   THE   BIBLIOGRAPHICAL   SOCIETY 

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LISTS     OF     MANUSCRIPTS 

FORMERLY  OWNED  BY 


DR.    JOHN     DEE 

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WITH  PREFACE  AND  IDENTIFICATIONS 


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M.   R.  JAMES,  LITT.D.,  F.B.A.,  F.S.A. 


PROVOST  OF  ETON 
SOMETIME   PROVOST   OF   KING'S   COLLEGE,   CAMBRIDGE 


PRINTED  AT  THE   OXFORD   UNIVERSITY   PRESS 

FOR   THE   BIBLIOGRAPHICAL   SOCIETY 

1921 


PREFACE 

IN  1842  J.  O.  Halliwell  edited  for  the  Camden  Society 
a  volume  entitled  The  Diary  of  Dr.  John  Dee.  To  the  diary 
itself,  which  extends  with  considerable  gaps  over  the  years 
(1554)  1577  to  1 60 1,  he  appended  the  catalogue  of  Dee's 
manuscript  library,  taken  from  an  autograph  MS.  in  the  Gale 
Collection  at  Trinity  College,  Cambridge  (O.  4.  20).  This 
catalogue  it  is  my  purpose  to  reprint  here,  and  to  furnish  what 
information  I  can  about  the  books  entered  in  it. 

Bibliographers  will  readily  agree  that  this  is  worth  doing. 
They  will  remember  that  Dee  was  not  merely  an  alchemist  and 
spiritualist,  but  a  really  learned  man,  and  one  who  had  done  his 
best,  by  petitions  and  otherwise,  to  stimulate  interest  in  the 
rescuing  of  MSS.  from  the  dissolved  monastic  libraries  and  to 
induce  the  sovereign  to  establish  a  central  national  collection  of 
them.  They  will  also  be  aware  that  we  have  but  very  few 
sixteenth-century  English  catalogues  of  manuscript  collections, 
and  that  the  investigation  of  the  destinies  of  a  dispersed  library 
may  be  made  to  throw  much  light  upon  the  formation  of  the 
collections  which  still  exist. 

It  will  be  as  well,  before  we  embark  upon  the  examination  of 
the  catalogue,  to  have  before  us  the  leading  dates  in  the  life  of  the 
owner  of  the  books.  John  Dee  was  born  in  1527.  When  the 
Diary  begins,  we  find  him  living  at  Mortlake.  In  1583  (on  Sep- 
tember 21)  he  left  England,  with  the  impostor  Edward  Kelly,  for 
Bohemia  and  Poland,  whence,  after  a  most  unsuccessful  and  detri- 
mental sojourn,  he  returned  to  Mortlake  in  December  1589. 
In  1595  he  was  made  Warden  of  Manchester  College  (now  the 
cathedral)  :  in  1604  he  came  back  to  Mortlake  ;  and  in  1608 
he  died  there  in  poverty. 


4       Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee 

Our  catalogue  was  made  on  September  6,  1583,  just  a  fort- 
night before  he  started  for  the  Continent.  As  soon  as  he  was 
fairly  off,  a  raid  was  made  upon  his  house  by  the  less  respect- 
able residents  in  Mortlake  (among  the  better  sort  he  seems  to 
have  been  popular  and  well-liked),  his  books  were,  to  some 
extent,  dispersed,  and  valuable  scientific  instruments  broken  or 
stolen.  On  his  return  six  years  later  he  was  able  to  recover,  it 
is  said,  three-fourths  of  the  books,  but  the  apparatus  was  gone 
for  ever.  The  cause  of  the  raid  was  no  doubt  Dee's  dealings 
with  spirits,  which  not  unnaturally  earned  for  him  the  reputa- 
tion of  being  a  sorcerer.1 

The  catalogue  of  1583,  then,  cannot  be  regarded  as  a  full 
record  of  the  manuscripts  which  Dee  possessed  at  the  time  of 
his  death.  Some  volumes  will  be  entered  in  it  which  were  lost 
or  destroyed  soon  after  it  was  made,  and,  on  the  other  hand, 
during  the  twenty-five  years  that  elapsed  between  its  making 
and  Dee's  death,  it  is  not  to  be  supposed  that  he  did  not  make 
additions  to  his  collection.  There  are,  in  fact,  volumes  in  exis- 


1  The  marginal  notes  writlen  by  Dee  in  the  MS.  of  this  catalogue  at  Trinity 
College  relate  in  some  cases  to  this  spoliation.  One  such,  which  occurs  only 
once  in  the  list  of  MSS.,  but  very  often  indeed  in  that  of  the  printed  books,  is 
'  J.  Davis  spoyle '.  There  are  variants  of  this :  e.g.  on  f.  3  of  the  MS.  apropos 
of  a  work  of  Cusanus,  '  Jo.  Davis  toke  (wth  others)  by  violence  out  of  my 
howse  after  my  going ',  followed  by  the  sentence,  through  which  Dee  has 
drawn  a  line,  '  He  hath  got  the  Mathematicall  part  of  Cusan.'  Again,  '  Jo. 
Davis  sent  me  one  volume  home,  the  other  lacketh.'  '  Jo.  Davis  spoyle  he 
hath  not  yet  restored,  as  may  appere  by  his  letters.'  Other  like  notes  are 
'  Mr.  Jak  restored  ',  '  Widdow  Gardiner  (or  Gardiner's  Widdow)  restored '. 
Davis,  Gardiner,  and  Jak  are  all  mentioned  in  the  Diary,  In  Oct.  1579 
Davis  figures  as  one  of  the  persons  who  are  continually  being  '  reconciled '  to 
Dee :  in  Feb.  1583  he  is  one  of  a  group  who  confer  with  Walsingham  about 
the  North- West  Passage,  and  in  March  he  goes  off  to  Devonshire.  Robert 
Gardiner  in  May  1582  has  revelations  vouchsafed  to  him  about  the 
philosopher's  stone,  and  seems  to  have  been  in  Dee's  employment.  In  May 
1 590  Thomas  Jack  restores  to  Dee  part  of  his  '  magnes  stone ',  and  in  July 
sends  him  back  a  hammer. 


Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee       5 

tence  which  contain  his  name,  with  dates  of  acquisition  long 
subsequent  to  1583. 

He  may  have  parted  with  some  of  his  treasures  under  stress  of 
poverty  during  the  years  immediately  preceding  his  death  :  his 
biographers  say  that  he  did  :  but  the  fact  is  not  of  great  impor- 
tance as  regards  our  investigation.  It  is  of  more  interest  to 
learn  what  happened  to  the  library  when  he  was  gone.  Upon 
this  some  light  is  thrown  by  Archbishop  Ussher's  correspon- 
dence. Sir  Henry  Bourgchier,  writing  to  Ussher  in  1624 
(sixteen  years  after  Dee's  death),  speaks  of*  Dee's  library,  which 
hath  been  long  litigious,  and  by  that  means  unsold '  (Works, 
x|  227).  In  another  letter  (March  23,  1624-5)  he  savs 
*  Vettius  Valens  in  Greek  is  Mr.  Selden's  now,  but  was  some- 
times Dr.  Dee's,  but  the  rest  of  his  books  will  be  had  very 
shortly,  as  many  as  are  worth  the  having '.  In  October  1626 
Dr.  Bainbridge,  Professor  of  Astronomy  at  Oxford,  writes  to 
the  Archbishop :  *  I  am  bold  to  enter  your  grace's  bibliolheca 
with  the  humble  request  that  I  may  have  the  names  of  such 
mathematical  books  as  were  Dee's.'  He  adds  that  he  had  seen 
in  London  a  list  of  bare  tides  of  Dee's  books,  and  had  been  to 
Sir  Robert  Cotton,  but  his  books  were  not  yet  ordered  in 
a  catalogue.  From  these  passages  I  gather  that  litigation  (con- 
sequent most  likely  on  Dee's  debts)  had  prevented  the  dispersion 
of  the  library  until  1625  (probably  February  i62|),  and  that, 
when  it  was  finally  sold,  Ussher  and  Cotton  had  made  con- 
siderable purchases.  Selden,  we  see,  also  bought  at  least 
one  book.  We  find  Dee  books,  too,  in  the  collections  of 
Digby,  Ashmole,  Savile  (Sir  Henry,  who  died  before  Dee)  : 
but  there  is  a  yet  more  important  purchaser.  The  number  of 
volumes  from  this  source  which  have  made  their  way  to  Corpus 
Christi  College,  Oxford,  cannot  fail  to  arrest  attention  :  it  con- 
stitutes by  far  the  largest  portion  of  Dee's  library  that  is  to  be 
found  in  any  one  place. 

Now  a  document  exists  (C.C.C.,  Oxford,  MS.  280,  p.  235) 


6       Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee 

which  shows  that  a  number  of  Dee's  MSS.  were  offered  for 
sale  to  the  College  by  Brian  Twyne,  the  famous  Oxford  anti- 
quary, who  was  a  Fellow  of  the  society.  The  purchase  was 
declined,  but  the  books  were  ultimately  bequeathed  by  Twyne 
to  the  College.1 

Twyne's  special  reason  for  buying  the  books  I  can  only  con- 
jecture ;  but  my  conjecture  takes  this  form.  John  Twyne,  his 
grandfather,  schoolmaster,  mayor,  and  antiquarian,  of  Canterbury, 
had  procured  a  good  many  MSS.  from  the  dissolved  library  of 
St.  Augustine's  Abbey  there,  and  these  had  afterwards  come 
into  Dee's  hands  :  Brian  Twyne  knew  this,  and  desired  to 
recover  and  keep  together  his  grandfather's  collections.  Certain 
it  is  that  many  of  the  Dee-Twyne-Corpus  Christi  books  are 
from  St.  Augustine's,2  less  certain  that  they  were  owned  by 
John  Twyne.  Brian  Twyne,  by  the  way,  did  not  succeed  in 
securing  all  the  St.  Augustine's  MSS.  that  Dee  owned  :  the 
most  important  one,  the  catalogue  of  the  Abbey  library,  went 
to  Ussher,  and  is  now  at  Dublin.  This  is  all  that  I  can  learn 

1  The  documents  are  as  follows : 

(a)  An  acknowledgment  of  £  1 5  due  to  John  White,  bookseller  in  Little 
Britain,  for  MSS.  bought  by  B.  Twyne  for  the  use  of  the  President  and 
Scholars  of  C.  C.  College  in  Oxon.  to  be  paid  before  14  March.  Dated 
22  Feb.  1625  :  signed  Th.  Amyan,  President. 

(Z>)  A  similar  acknowledgment  by  the  same  of  £3  6s.  due  to 
J.  White.  Dated  23  Feb.  1625. 

(c)  Notes  by  Twyne,  viz. :  '  I  made  a  generall  catalogue  of  these  bookes 
at  London,  &  when  they  were  brought  downe  to  ye  Coll:  ye  company  would 
not  consent  that  any  money  shuld  be  layd  out  for  them.  Br.  Twyne. 

They  were  returned  vppon  ye  President. 

They  were  parcell  of  Dr.  Dees  bookes  &  some  of  them  very  rare  :  &  all 
worthy  of  ye  buyinge  for  ye  Coll:  Library,  if  they  had  byn  more.' 

2  Several  entries,  to  which  I  can  as  yet  find  no  corresponding  extant  MS., 
answer  to  entries  in  the  St.  Augustine's  Catalogue,  viz.  Nos.  20,  (59),  68, 
107,  120,  (138),  159, 171,  (173).     Of  the  extant  MSS.  sixteen  can  be  traced 
to  St.  Augustine's. 

Similarly  one  or  two  books  may  have  come  from  the  Austin  Friars  at 
York  (see  the  catalogue  in  fasciculus  J.  W.  Clark  dicaius),  viz.  Nos.  72,  75. 


Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee       7 

or  guess  as  to  the  destinies  of  Dee's  MSS.  immediately  after 
their  dispersion.  We  find  stray  volumes  making  their  way 
into  the  libraries  of  Pepys,  Gale,  Harley,  and  Sloane  (one  at 
Lambeth  must  have  been  bought  by  Bancroft  before  Dee's 
death).  I  have  found  but  one  for  certain  in  a  foreign  library, 
and  that  belonged  to  Kenelm  Digby.  Two  others,  doubtful, 
are  among  Queen  Christina's  MSS.  in  the  Vatican. 

There  is  more,  however,  to  be  said  about  the  growth  of  the 
collection.  We  have  two  lists  of  Dee's  MSS.  earlier  than  1583. 
One  (List  A)  is  in  a  small  notebook  of  his  at  Corpus  Christi 
College,  Oxford  (MS.  191).  This  book  contains  : 

1.  List  of  MSS.  owned  by  Dee  in  1556. 

2.  List  of  MSS.  borrowed  by  him  from  Peterhouse,  Cam- 

bridge, to  be  returned  in  1558.' 

3.  Contents  of  a  MS.  borrowed  from  Dr.  Hathar. 

4.  Contents  of  a    MS.    borrowed    from    Queen's    College, 

Oxford. 

5.  List  of  MSS.  bought  by  him  from  John  Leland's  library 

in  1556,  and  from  other  sources. 

6.  Alchemical  books  read  by  him  in  1556.     This  last  item 

does  not  concern  our  present  investigation. 

The  other  (List  B)  is  contained  in  the  British  Museum  MS. 
Add.  35213  (formerly  Phillipps  10701),  to  which  Mr.  J.  P. 
Gilson  and  Mr.  J.  A.  Herbert  kindly  directed  my  attention. 
It  is  the  volume  from  which  Mr.  Gilson  printed  the  very 
interesting  catalogue  of  the  MSS.  of  Long  Harry  Savile  of 

1  Of  the  books  (six  in  number)  borrowed  in  1556,  five  are  still  to  be 
found  in  the  catalogue  of  1583.  But  we  must  not  be  hasty  in  accusing  Dee 
of  dishonesty.  One  of  the  borrowed  MSS.  (now  Ashmole  424)  ha<=  a  note 
in  Dee's  hand  to  the  effect  that  it  was  presented  to  him  by  Peterhouse  in 
1564  in  exchange  for  a  gift  of  printed  books.  Dee  parted  with  it  before  his 
death  :  in  1606  a  'Dominus  Hypsley '  gave  or  sold  it  to  P(atrick)  Saunders. 
These  same  names  occur  in  another  of  the  books,  Ashmole  1471,  also  with 
the  date  1606. 


8       Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee 

Banke  (d.  1617).'  On  ff.  1-4  it  contains  a  roughly-written 
list  of  Dee's  books,  written  and  printed,  in  his  autograph,  the 
MSS.  being  entered  on  ff.  3  b  and  4.  This  list  cannot  be  far 
removed  from  A  in  date,  but  it  is  not  clear  to  me  whether  it  is 
a  little  the  earlier  or  a  little  the  later  of  the  two.  List  A  is,  in 
any  case,  of  greater  importance,  since  it  shows  the  sources  whence 
some  of  Dee's  MSS.  came. 

My  chief  object  in  this  investigation  is  to  identify  the  extant 
remains  of  Dee's  manuscript  library.  With  this  in  view  I  have 
examined  a  great  many  collections  at  London,  Oxford,  Cam- 
bridge, and  elsewhere,  as  occasion  offered  :  and  not  without 
success.  Halliwell  gave  identifications  (not  always  correct)  of 
22  MSS.  :  mine,  certain  and  doubtful,  number  over  120.  The 
means  of  identification  vary.  Sometimes  we  have  Dee's  signa- 
ture in  full  ;  but  often  we  have  to  depend  on  subsidiary  marks  : 
autograph  notes  are  not  uncommon  ;  other  books  bear  a  A  or 

the  astrological  sign  of  Jupiter  thrice  repeated  ^/^>  or  a  mark 
like,  a  small  ladder.  Sometimes  names  of  owners,  like 
P.  Saunders,  whom  we  know  to  have  been  Dee's  associates,  com- 
bine with  the  contents  of  a  MS.  to  ensure  an  identification. 
Often  the  contents  of  the  MS.  are  the  only  guide.  The  list 
itself  will  afford  the  reader  the  means  of  judging  of  the  weight 
of  the  evidence  in  each  case. 

I  have  collated  Halliwell's  text  of  O.  4.  20  with  the  MS. 
without  finding  any  important  differences.  One  feature,  it  is 
true,  Halliwell  has  omitted  to  notice,  and  I  cannot  wholly  ex- 
plain. With  few  exceptions  the  entries  of  MSS.  up  to  no.  67 
have  a  T  prefixed  to  them.  The  others  have  in  most  cases  the 
letters  Fr.  These  same  letters,  T  and  Fr.,  are  prefixed  to  the 
entries  of  printed  books,  which  of  course  fill  the  greatest  part 
of  the  MS.  For  Fr.  I  can  suggest  an  interpretation.  At  the 
very  beginning  of  the  volume  is  this  note  in  Dee's  hand, 
minutely  written  and  somewhat  injured  : 

1  Trans.  Bibliogr.  Soc.  vol.  ix.  1907. 


Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee       y 
Andreas    Fremonshemius  I  Birkmannorum  Coloiniensium   in 


exscn- 


Anglicos(P)  |  Distractor  Librorum  siue  Bibliopola  . 

psit  Mortlacii  ipsos  omnes  .  .  .  |  singulos  libros  considerans. 

The  Fr.  then  may  indicate  Fremonshemius,  the  agent  of 
the  Birkmanns,  who  perhaps  contemplated  buying  the  library, 
but  cannot  ultimately  have  done  so.  Who  T  was  I  cannot  now 
guess — not  Twyne,  at  any  rate.  Happily  the  letters  seem  to 
have  no  value  as  indicating  the  present  whereabouts  of  the  books. 

There  is  a  second  MS.  of  the  catalogue  of  1583,  viz.  Harley 
1879  :  it  is  in  the  same  hand  as  the  Gale  MS.,  but  does  not 
contain  the  letters  T  and  Fr.,  nor  any  marginal  notes  by  Dee. 
It  has,  however,  prefixed  to  the  catalogue  on  f.  1 9b  of  the  whole 
volume  (which  contains  several  catalogues)  a  note  in  Dee's 
hand  (I  think)  which  is  not  without  interest,  though  it  does  not 
bear  directly  on  our  subject : 

*  In  the  Book  of  St.  Augten  of  Canterbury .  being  a  large  Foil. 
Book  in  an  old  red  cover  containing  385  leaves. 

The  beginning  of  the  book  is  in  a  latter  hand  then  most  of 
the  book  and  is  an  Exemplification  and  Confirmation  of  all  the 
charters  of  the  Kings  proinde  (?)  to  Ed.  the  sonn  of  Edward 
mad  in  the  time  Radulphi  Abbatis. 

In  the  first  leaf  of  the  old  hand,  after  the  former  Exemplifi- 
cation, and  vnder  the  charter  of  King  Aethelbert  and  priueledg 
of  St.  Augten  anglorum  apostoli,  there  is  wrytten  thes  words 
following  in  a  rud  secretary  hand 

Liber  Johannis  Twyne  de  grayes  Ine  ex  dono  patris  sui 
Johannis  Twyne  Teste  Humfrido  Jurdano  Rectore 
ecclesie  de  Sturmowthe.  per  me  John  Twyne 

The  sam  is  wrytten  in  pag.  of  the  sam  book  212  over  a  deed 
of  3  roods  and  a  half  of  land  in  Newland 

This  book  is  now  in  the  hands  of  on  Mr.  Wilford  of  Kent 
an[d]  old  gentellman  being  in  fette(r)  layn  a  recusant.' 

The  book  here  described  is  doubtless  the  Cotton  MS. 
Claud.  D.  x. 


to      Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee 

We  find  more  of  it  in  Clark  (Wood's  Life  and  Times,  iv.  91, 
Oxf.  Hist.  Soc.*).  Brian  Twyne  (xvi.  407)  cites:  Thomas  de 
Thanet  (vixit  1272)  Matricula  scil.  de  variis  chartis  libertatibus 
ac  privilegiis  et  possessionibus  monasterii  S.  Aug.  Cant.  Init. 
In  nomine  domini  J.  C.  notum  sit  omnibus  tarn  praesentibus 
quam  posteris  quod  ego  Adhelbertus.  It  was  given  by  John 
Twyne  of  Canterbury  (but  query  of  Gray's  Inn  :  see  above)  to 
Thomas  Smyth  high-customer  of  London,  and  was  afterwards 
in  the  hands  of  Richard  James  of  C.C.C.  Oxford  :  a  thick 
4to  with  a  red  cover. 

The  notes  have  some  interest  as  recording  the  fact  that  John 
Twyne  owned  yet  another  St.  Augustine's  book. 

Of  the  general  character  of  the  collection  a  few  words  must 
be  said.  It  is  in  the  main  a  special  one,  got  together  to  assist 
Dee  in  his  peculiar  studies.  Had  it  survived  intact  it  would 
have  been  a  first-class  repository  of  mediaeval  science  books 
excluding  medicine.  Alchemy,  astrology,  astronomy,  physics, 
geometry,  optics,  mathematics  are  all  very  copiously  repre- 
sented ;  and  Dee  appears  to  have  given  special  attention  to 
collecting  the  works  of  two  great  writers,  Roger  Bacon  and 
Raymund  Lull.  There  is  very  little  theology,  and  no  ancient 
poetry.  Among  the  classical  MSS.,  one  containing  the  versions 
of  Plato's  Phaedo  and  Meno,  which  was  made  in  Sicily  for 
Frederick  IV — see  Val.  Rose's  articles  on  it  in  Hermes,  vol.  i— 
is  of  special  interest.  History,  British  and  English,  is  perhaps 
the  subject  best  represented  next  to  Natural  Science.  One 
Welsh  MS.  occurs. 

Few  of  the  MSS.  which  can  be  identified  are  very  old.  Perhaps 
the  oldest  is  the  Lauderdale  Orosius,  now  at  Helmingham,  which 
is  not  in  the  catalogue.  The  Priscianus  Lydus  (A.  1 5),  Isidore 
(94),  Boethius  (i  14),  Aethicus  (9,80)  are  of  respectable  antiquity. 

I  have  not  attempted  to  collect  here  notices  of  MSS.  of  Dee's 
own  writing. 


Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee      1 1 

I 

LIST  A 

C.  C.  C.  Oxford,  MS.  191. 
$i.   J.  Dee.     Libri  antiqui  script!  quos  habeo  anno  1556. 

1.  Anthologia    Vectii.  Valentis  |  Aristoxeni    Musica  |  Alypii    Musica     | 

Cleomedes  de  Mundo  |  Tractatus  de  astrolabio  |  Hipparchus  in 
Aratum  et  Eudoxum.  Grece  compact!.  =  C.  43. 

2.  De  musica  libri  varii  |  Perspectiua  Baconis  |  Albion  |  Canones  Jois  de 

Lyneriis  |  Prophatius  Judeus  de  quadrante  cum  aliis  libris.     =  C.  72. 

3.  Magnum  opus  20  variorum  authorum  in  chymicis. 

4.  Ars  Sintrillia  |  Ars  Notaria  |  Problemata  varia  |  Geberi  scientiae  parti- 

culares  in  Philosophia  |  lordanus  de  planisphaerio 
cum  aliis  astrologicis  fragment!?. 

5.  Specularia  Euclidis  |  lordanus  de  ponderibus. 

6.  lordanus  de  ponderibus  |  Euclidis  perspectiua  |  Fragmentum  Euclidis 

de  leui  et  ponderoso  (graui  B)  |  De  maxima  capacitate  circuli  et 
sphaerae  (  +  sec.  ess.  Isopi  B). 

7.  Philotechne  Jordani  s.  de  triangulis.  =  C.  32. 

8.  Geometria  practica  breuis  |  De  leui  et  ponderoso  opusculum  elegans  j 

Arati  filii  Joseph  (Jos.  B.)  de  proportione  et  proportionato  (proper  - 
tionalitate  B). 

9.  Sphaerica  Theodosii  I  Data  Euclidis  |  Archimedis  circuli  dimensio. 

=  C.  98. 

10.  Perspectiua  communis  Alhacen  (Cro..  B).  =  C.  83  or  102. 

11.  Arismetica  Boetii  cum  aliis  opusculis  eiusdem  |  Thebith  super  Alma- 

gestum  Ptolemaei  |  Theodosius  de  locis  habitabilibus  |  (B.  Liber 
demonstratus.  om.  A)  |  Chiromantia  Gallice  |  De  interpretationibus 
somniorum  |  Physionomia  Thome  de  Aquino  |  Chiromantia  Petri  de 
Abano  cum  aliis  variis  libris.  =€.137. 

12.  Antiquus  scriptor  de  speculis  quoquo  modo  comburentibus.      =  C.  44. 

13.  Tractatulus  de  auro  potabili. 

14.  Solinus  de  mirabilibus  mundi.  =  C.  172. 

15.  Prisciani  fragmentum  de  hiis  de  quibus  dubitauit  Cosroe  rex  persarum 

[not  in  C.  Brit.  Mus.  Vesp.  A  II]. 

1 6.  Thome  Bravardini  de  proportione  fragmentum.  =  C.  iSi? 

17.  Bachon  de  graduatione  rerum  compositarum,  seu  linea  intensionis  ac 

remissionis  cum  expositione.  =  C.  19. 

1 8.  Modus  fabricae  materialis  speculi  comburentis  (combustibilis  B)  cum 

aliis  (et  aliis  B)  |  De  signis  implentibus  locum  |  De  .Magnete  (om.  B.) 


12      Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee 

19.  Summa  naturalium  Alberti  Magni.  =  C.  55 

20. 


Cf.  C.  65,  83,  102,  in. 


21.5-  Perspectiua  Alhacen. 
22. 

23.  Sphaerica  Milei  compacti.  =  C.  i. 

24.  Porphyrii  fragmentum  graece  in  quadripartitum  Ptolemaei. 

25.  Perspectiua  Bachonis  |  De  multiplicatione  specierum  Bacon.     =  C.  41. 

26.  Perspectiua  Alhacen  4m  exemplar  j  Alpetragius  de  'omocentricis  |  Alfra- 

ganus.  =  C.  86. 

27.  Bachonis  magnum  opus  communium  naturalium.  =  C.  27. 

28.  Commentum  in  Martianum  Capellam.  =  C.  116?. 

29.  Franciscus  Cataneus  in  Aristotelem  de  Caelo  (Cat.  B)  compact. 

=  C.  93. 

30.  Tractatulus  Linconiensis  de  Iride  |  Fragmentum  Jordani  de  ponderibus  j 

Euclidis  optica.  Specularia  |  Algorismus  demonstrate  |  lordanus  de 
triangulis  |  Theodosii  Sphaerica  |  AMraganus.  =  C.  186? 

31.  Obseruationes  quaedam  Jo.  de  Lineriis  cum  aliis.  =  C.  138  ? 

$ii.  Reddenda  anno  1558  in  festo  Michaelis.  Antiqua 
exemplaria  quos  habui  a  Coll.  S.  Petri  Cantabrigiae  15566  Mali. 

32.  (i)  Arithmetica  Jordani  .  .  .  (16)  Algorismus  demonstratus  per  Jor- 

danum  ut  creditur.  =  C.  91. 

33.  Vitellionis  perspectiua  elegantissime  scriptum.  =  C.  97. 

34.  Albertus  de  universalibus  lib.  5  .  .  .  de  acre  aqua  et  regionibus.  =  C.  24. 

35.  Expositio  theoricarum  .  .  .  tract,  proportionum  Bradwardini.     =  C.  37. 

§  iii.  Recepi  a  doctore  Hathar  eodem  tempore  reddenda  in 
festo  Michaelis  1556  (?  1558)  ea  quae  sequuntur  ut  catalogus 
prefixus  enumerat. 

36.  Euclidis  lib.  4  cum  expositione  Campani  J  Perspectiua  Pecham  |  Quae- 

stiones  bonae  super  perspectiuam  |  Moralizatio  Visus  secundum 
Bakon  |  Allkabitii  Introductio  |  Canones  ad  Almanak  perpetuum 
Profacii  Judei  |  4or  Capitula  Albionis  etc.  |  Sphaera  Pithagorica  | 
Will.  Anglicus  de  non  prius  visa  |  Flores  Albumazar  | 

Ptolemaeus  de  9  stellis  caudatis  |  Quaestiones  super  tractatum  de 
sphaera  |  loh.  de  Sacrobosco  de  sphaera  |  Theoricae  Planetarum 
Campani  |  Quaestiones  nouae  super  4or  libros  Meteorwn  |  Quae- 
stiones breues  super  Autorem  de  causis  |  Expositio  super  sphaeram  | 
Kalendarium  Planetarum  |  Quatuor  iudicia  data  |  Summa  Astrologiae 
abbreuiata  |  De  dispositione  aeui  quoad  plurima  |  Exafranon  de 


Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee      13 

pronosticacione  temporis  |  Bakon  de  commendatione  utilitatis  astro- 
nomiae  |  Tabula  Ptolemaei  docens  naturas  7  planetarum  |  Tabula 
Mag.  Willelmi  Rede  |  Canones  ad  Kalendarium  Planetarum. 

§  iv.  Libri  quos  habeo  in  uno  volumine  in  Collegio  Reginali 
Oxoniae  anno  1556  18  Maii  Mro  Morreno  et  Mro  Carie  mecum 
praesentibus.  Et  Mr  Knipe  eiusdem  collegii  socius  nobis 
tradidit,  ita  quod  dicti  magistri  et  episcopus  Lond:  pro  eiusdem 
voluminis  redditione  onus  omne  in  se  susciperent. 

37.  Arithmetica  cum  commento  .  .  .  Vitelionis  libri  4or  primi.     =  C.  109. 

$  v.  Ex  bibliotheca  Laelandi  emi  pro  30  solidis  hos 
sequentes  libros  1556.18  Maii  Londinii. 

38.  Mineralium  Alberti  lib:  5  |  Rob.  de  Kilwardby  de  ortu  scientiarum  | 

Tract,  de  tempore  |  Tract,  de  relationibus. 

39.  Urso  de  commixtione  elementorum  |  Aphorismi  Ursonis  cum  aliis. 

=  C.3. 

40.  Summa  Anglicana  Jois  Eschuyden.  =  C.  89 

41.  Haly  haben  ragel  de  Judiciis.  =  C.  99. 

42.  Messa  halah  de  astrolabio  .  .  .  Practica  geometric  cum  aliis  variis  in 

medicina.  =  C.  157. 

[In  paler  ink~\ 

43.  I  borowed  one  volume  of  master  bruern  written  in  parchment  in  4*°  two 

ynches  thik  in  which  are  many  and  good  bokes  and  Jordan  de  datis 
numeris  and  Gerardus  Brussellensis  de  motu  which  I  never  saw 
elsewhere  and  mr  bruarn's  name  is  written  on  the  back.  =  C.  13  ? 

44.  [on  next  page] 

Bachon  summa  ad  Clementem  cum  aliis 

I  bought  at  Sarrisbury  (?).  =  C.  26. 

45.  [on  next  page] 

Duo  magna  volumina  astrologica  in  lingua  hebraea  scripta  |  Alchimia 
Salomonis  in  carmine  Teutonico  |  De  pleno  et  vacuo.  =  C.  62. 

Jvi.  [Later  in  the  book  is  a  list  of]  Authores  alchymici  quos 
perlegi  anno  1556  a  mense  Julii. 

[//  occupies  nearly  4.  pages  :  the  scripti  libri  occupy  about  2  f  pp., 
beginning] 

O  venerande  pater 
Averroes  super  .  .  . 


1 4      Manuscripts  formerly  mvned  by  Dr.  John  Dee 

II 
LIST  B 

(Brit.  Mus.  Add.  35213,  f .  3  b  col.  ii.) 

Libri  scripti. 

1.  Perspectiva  alacen  arabis  compactus.  =  A.  20  or  21. 

2.  Perspectiuae  alacen  aliud  exemplar.  =  A.  22. 

3.  Perspectiuae  alacen  3™  exemplar  |  Alpetragius  |  Alfraganus.     =  A.  26. 

4.  Perspectiua  Bacon  |  Bacon  de  multiplicatione  specierum.  compacti. 

=  A.  25. 

5.  Sphaerica  Milei  compact.  =  A.  23. 

6.  Baconis  magnum  opus  communium  naturalium  compact.          =  A.  27. 

7.  Commentarius  in  Marcianum  Capellam  de  astronomicis  cum  aliis. 

=  A.  28. 

8.  Franciscus  Cataneus  in  Aristotelem  de  Cat.  compact.  =  A.  29. 

9.  =A.  30. 

[f.  4b,  col.  i,  has  printed  books.\ 

[f.  4,  col.  2]  Secundi  fasciculi.     Libri  Scripti. 

10-28  =  A.  1-19. 

29.  Jo.  Dee  de  usu  globi  caelestis  ad  Edwardum  6m  Anglie  Regem. 

30.  =  A.  24. 

31.  Bachon  de  speculis  comburentibus. 

32.  Fragmen turn  de  Albion  |  Thebith  de  8asphaera  |  Obseruationes  quedam 

Jois  de  Lyneriis  ad  fixas  et  planetas  &  =  A.  31. 

Ill 

LIST  C 

Catalogus  Librorum  Bibliothecae  Externae  Mortlacensis  D. 
loh.  Dee  A  1583  6  Sept. 

Libri  Manuscript! 

T.  i.  Milei  sphaericorum  tractatus  tres.  4°  perg.     =  A.  23  B.  5. 

[C/.  BodL  MS.  Digby  I'jS,/.  1 1 2.    Part  of  the  same  volume  is  C.  29.] 


Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee      is 

T.  2.  Theoricae  planetarum  |  lordani  de  triangulis,  ubi  de  quadratura 
circuit  |  Eiusdem  de  perspectiva  |  Eiusdem  de  speculis,  crepusculis, 
ponderibus,  speculis  comburentibus  lib.  ii.  4°  scripti  perg. 

T.  3.  Compendium  de  vitis  philosophorum  anonymi  j  Ursonis  ('  in  Cotton  ' 
addeif)  de  commixtionibus  elementorum  |  Eiusdem  aphorismi. 

4°  perg.     =  A.  39. 

[Trin.Coll.Caml>.O.2.  50.   From  the  Dominicans  of  London.    Bought 
from  Leland's  Library. .] 

T.  4.  Avicenna  de  anima  mundi  cum  aliis,  videlicet  |  Liber  cuius  initium 
est :  Inspector  praecedentis  libri  Avicennae  \  Expositorius  Rogeri 
Bachonis  |  Liber  de  ponderibus  |  Morienus  ad  regem  Calid  |  Ra- 
sis  libri  quinque  de  decem  (marg.  :  70 :)  |  Hermetis  libri  septem  | 
Rosinus  ad  Euthesiam  |  Dicta  sapientis  |  Turba  philosophorum  | 
Distinctionum  sapientium  liber  |  Epistola  Alexandri  regis  Persa- 
rum  |  Aristoteles  de  30  verbis  |  Socratis  liber  |  Effrey  Effinensis 
liber  |  Liber  Calid  |  Liber  commentatus  j  Opus  philosophorum  | 
Geber  de  perfecto  magisterio.  4°  perg. 

[Glasgow  Hunter  MS.  U.  4. 1 1 .  From  St.  Augustine's,  Canterbury  (no. 
1544  in  catalogue).  lo.  Dee  1556.] 

T.  5.  loh.  Duns  Scoti  quaestiones  in  Porphyrii  quinque  voces  |  Antonii 
cuiusdam  expositio  in  categorias  sex  etc.  |  Rogerii  Bachonis  de 
multiplicatione  specierum  |  Eiusdem  perspectiva.  4°  perg. 

[Perhaps  Bodl.  MS.  Savile  18  (paper  and  vellum,  of  cent,  xv,  in  original 
binding).  Ii  contains  the  names  of  George  and  Richard  Eden,  Edw. 
Gascoyne,  and  KnyvettJ\ 

T.  6.  Thomae  Aquinatis  quaestionum  disputalarum  volumen.         4°  perg. 
[C.C.C.  Oxford  225.     From  the  Grey  Friars  of  Cambridge.     lo. 
Dee  1561  Bostoniae.     Old  press-mark  a.  i.     Ladder~mark^\ 

T.  7.  Scintillarium  poetarum  |  Summa  chiromantiae  |  Ovidii  metamorpho- 
seos  expositio  |  Tract,  de  veneno  |  Valerius  ad  Ruffinum  de  non 
ducenda  uxore,  cum  expositione  |  loh.  Wyclyf  determinatio  | 
Literae  fratris  Willelmi  Fleth  |  Fulgentii  mythologiae  cum  exposi- 
tione |  Tract,  de  difficilibus  dictionibus  Bibliae  |  Rob.  Lincol- 
niensis  in  oculo  morali  j  Rob.  Lincoln,  de  ratione  veneni  |  loh. 
Walensis  breviloquium  philosophorum  descriptum  per  Stoctonem 
Cantabrigiae  1375]  Casus  abstracti  in  jure  per  Fratrem  Hermannum 
de  provincia  Saxoniae  |  Casus  episcopo  reservati  |  Expositio  sa^ata- 
tionis  angelicae.  4°  perg. 

[Dublin  Trin.  Coll.  115.  Probably  from  the  Grey  Friars,  Cam- 
bridge, lo.  Dee  1561  Bostoniael\ 

T.  8.  De  ponderibus  et  mensuris  medicinalis  operationis  |  Viaticus  Con- 
stantini  Africani  libri  7  (marg.  excusi)  |  De  modo  medendi 


1 6      Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee 

experimenta  |  De    origine  morborum    et   eorum   cognitione   per 
urinam  |  De  electuariis  etc.  4°  perg. 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  189.     From  Christ  Church,  Canterbury  (no.  452). 

Owned  by  lo.  Holyngborne  (monk  of  Ch.  Ch.  in  cent.  xv—xvi).\ 
T.  9.  Ethici  Histri  cosmographia  ex  versione  Latina  D.  Hieronymi. 

4°  perg. 

One  I  had  with  me,  and  one  I  left  here,  which  is  noted  after  (no.  80). 
[Brit.  Mus.  Vesp.  B.  x.  Johannes  Dee  1565  Februarii  21 
Wigorniae  ex  dono  decani  ecclesiae  magistri  Peddar] 

T.  10.  Anonymi  Anticlaudianus  carmine  |  Hugonis  de  Pushac  Dunelmensis 
Episcopi  Brutus,  carmine  longa  forma,  perg. 

\Brit.  Mus.  Vesp.  A.  x.     lo.  Dee  1574  Man  7  bowght  vppon  a  stall 

in  London] 
T.  1 1 .  Tract,  compendiosus  de  animalibus.  4°  perg. 

[Possibly    C.C.C.    Oxford   245,   Alexander   Neckam.      It  has   the 

ladder-mark,] 
T.  12.  Wilhelmi  Parisiensis  fragment,  de  universis.  4°  perg. 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  130.     From  St.  Augustine's,  Canterbury  (not  in  the 

catalogue).     Title  written  in  Dee's  hand.] 

T.  13.  Euclidis  Elementa  Geometrica,  Optica,  et  Catoptrica  ex  arabico 
translata  per  Adellardum  |  Theodosii  sphaericorum  libri  |  Liber  de 
occultis  |  Ptolemaei  planisphaerium  |  lordani  planisphaerium  | 
Archimedis  tract,  de  quadrature  circuli  |  Gerardi  de  Brussel  liber 
de  motu  |  lordanus  de  ponderibus  |  Libri  quatuor  geometriae 
practicae  |  Alfarabius  de  scientiis  |  Wilhelmi  de  Conchis  philo- 
sophia  |  Rasis  liber  de  phisiognomia  |  Anatomia  hominis  |  De 
proprietatibus  elementorum  cum  aliis.  4°  perg.  =  A.  43 

[Phillipps  MS.  16345  formerly  Libri,  665  in  sale  catalogue  0/1857, 
lot  870  in  1896  Phillipps  sale.  The  entry  in  the  Libri  catalogue  is  : 

Euclidis  Geom.  Opt.  Catoptr.  cum  figuris  |  lordani  de  algorismo  cum 
commento.  De  minuciis  cum  commento  |  Gerardi  de  Brussel  liber 
de  motu  |  Archimedes  de  quadratura  circuli  |  De  curvis  super- 
ficiebus  et  de  sphaera  liber  mag.  loh.  de  Tinemue  |  Theodosii  de 
speris  libb.  iii  |  Almagestum  incerti  auctoris  |  De  compositione 
rationum  |  Euclidis  data  |  Alfrangi  astronomiae  rudimenta  inter- 
prete  loh.  Hispaniensi  cent.  xii.  ff.  209. 

The  items  common  to  the  two  lists  are  striking  and  the  discrepancies 
not  beyond  what  may  be  paralleled  in  this  catalogue.  I  believe  this 
Phillipps  MS.  to  be  the  one  which  Dee  borrowed  of  Bruarn  the 
Oxford  professor  of  Hebrew  and  momentary  Provost  of  Eton.  But 
if  so,  the  latter  part  of  it — William  of  Conches,  etc. — must  have  been 
detached  since  Dees  time] 


Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee      17 

T.  14.  Augustinus  de  anima  et  spiritu  |  Theoremata  de  spiritu  et  anima 
demonstrata  |  Algorithmic  demonstrates  loh.  de  Sacrobosco  j 
loh.  de  Rupella  summa  de  anima  |  Rob.  Lincoln,  tract,  de 
sphaera  |  loh.  de  Sacrobosco  tract,  de  sphaera  |  Tract,  de  pro- 
portione  et  proportionalitate  Rogeri  Bachonis  cum  aliis.  perg.  4° 
\C.C.C.  Oxford  41.  From  St.  Augustine's,  Canterbury  (no.  374 
John  of  London)] 

T.  15.  Maximi  Monachi,  Dionisii  Areopagitae,  Sophronii  Solitarii,  et  aliorum 
Graecorum  fragmenta  nonnulla.  perg.  4° 

Fr.  1 6.  Ramundi  Lullii  liber  de  quinta  essentia.  pap.  f° 

Non  est  Ramundi  Lullii,  sed  collectanea  diversa  ex  Paracelso. 
17.  Rogerii  Bachonis  de   anima  et  eius  operibus  J  Eiusdem   liber   de 
intellectu  et  intelligibili.  fo.  perg. 

T.  1 8.  A.  de  Villa  Nova  Apologia  de  versutiis  atque  perversitatibus  pseudo- 
theologorum  et  religiosorum  |  loachim  Abbatis  prophetia  contra 
religiones  tenentes  ordinem  mendicantium  |  Arnoldi  de  Villa  Nova 
opus  de  generibus  abusionum  veritatis,  et  de  pseudo-ministris 
Antichristi  cognoscendis,  et  de  pastorali  officio  circa  gregem 
exercendo  |  Eiusdem  prophetia  catholica,  tradens  artem  annihi- 
landi  versutias  Antichristi  et  omnium  membrorum  eius,  ad  sacrum 
collegium  Romanorum.  perg.  fo. 

T.  19.  Rogeri  Bachonis  de  retardatione  senectutis  et  senii  etc.  [marg. 
excusus]  |  Eiusdem  de  graduatione  medicinarum  compositarum 
etc.  perg.  f° 

[Art.  z  (cf.  A.  17,  B.  26)  is  in  C.C.C.  Oxford  254,  where  it  comes 
next  to  a  work  of  Dee's.  There  is  no  mark.  Other  possibilities  are 
Selden  supra  94  and  Chetham  Library  {Manchester}  A.  5.  24 
(11366),  which  latter  I  am  informed  has  no  mark  of  ownership] 

T.  20.  Eiusdem  Bachonis  metaphisica  |  Eiusdem  oeconomica.  Perg-  4° 

[Cf.  Si.  Aug.  Cant.  Catalogue,  no.  1071.] 

T.  21.  Eiusdem  (marg.  dubito)  de  animalibus  fragmentum.  perg.  f° 

T.  22.  Eiusdem  Bachonis  fragmenta  quaedam :  videlicet  de  multiplicatione 
et  corruptione  specierum  |  Item  communia  naturalia  |  Epistola  ad 
Clementem  per  R.  de  utilitate  scientiarum  artis  experimentalis  etc. 

perg.  f° 

T.  23.  (marg.  manuscriptus  liber  ab  ipso  A)  [i.e.  written  by  Dee  himself] 
Rogeri  Bachonis  pars  sexta  Operis  niajoris  quae  est  Scientia  Experi- 
mentalis ad  Clementem  Pontif:  Romanorum  |  Eiusdem  Operis 


Majoris    pars    septima    quae    est    Philosophia    Moralis 
Alchimiae    tract,    expositorius    ad    Clementem    P.M.R. 


Eiusd. 
Eiusd. 


compendium  Alchimiae  |  Avicennae   clavis   sapientiae    seu   porta 
minor    seu    tract,    de    anima  |   Breviloquium    Holcot  |  Rogerii 

B 


is     Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee 

Bachonis  speculum  Alchimiae  |  Quaestiones  super  librum  lor- 
dani  de  ponderibus  |  Compendium  artis,  Raymundi  Lullii  |  Ex- 
cerpta  ex  theorica  Ramundi  Lullii  |  Rogeri  Bachonis  tract,  de 
speciebus.  pap.  f° 

\Cf.  Dublin  Trin.  Coll  381.] 

T.  24.  Alberti  Magni  de  mineral ibus  libri  quinque  |  Hermetis  quadripartitum 
operie  |  Rhithmomachia  |  De  lapide  bezaar  |  Ars  fusoria  et  tinctoria 
lapidum  ac  gemmarum  |  Ptolomei  liber  de  lapidibus  et  sigillis 
eorundem  |  Techel  de  sculpturis  lapidum  |  Galenusde{i2  portis) 
de  spermate  |  Avicennae  phisiognomia  |  Commentariolus  in 
Aristotelis  phisiognomiam  |  Cheiromantiae  fragmentum  |  Arith- 
meticae  fragmentum  carmine  |  Practica  algorismi  |  Anima  artis 
transmutatoriae  Ramundi  |  Phisica  seu  medicina  Ramundi  Lullii 
De  herbis  |  De  potentiis  duodecim  signorum  et  septem  planetarum 
Epistola  accurtationis  lapidis  philosophorum  ad  Regem  Robertum 
Summa  cheiromantiae  |  Albertus  Magnus  de  mineralibus  |  Phisio- 
gnomia ex  Loxio  Aristotele  et  Palemone  (above :  '  in  Cotton ')  | 
Albertus  de  plantationibus  arborum  et  de  conservatione  vini  j 
Virtutes  septem  herbarum  Aristotelis  |  Liber  Kirimandarum 
(rnarg. :  excusus  misere.  est  mihi  MS.)  |  Philonis  fragmentum  de 
aquaeduclibus  |  Quaestiones  quaedam  naturales  |  Constantinus 
Medicus  de  coitu  |  Practica  puerorum  |  De  natura  puerorum) 
Introductiones  astronomicae  |  Hyppocrates  de  pharmacis  |  Hyppo- 
crates  de  secretis  |  Hippocratis  lex  |  Hippocrates  de  humana 
natura  |  Hippocrates  de  acre  aqua  et  regionibus. 

perg.  40     =  A.  34. 

\Bodl.  Ashmole  1471.    Formerly  at  Peterhouse,  Cambridge:  borrowed 
by  Dee  in  1556.] 

T.  25.  Eulogium  temporis  a  condito  orbe  in  annum  Christi  1367  monachi 
cuiusdam  Niniani.  perg.  f° 

[Brit.  Mus.  Galba  E.  vii.     loh.  Dee  1574  Sept.  25  of  the  gift  of 
Mr.  Dickenson  at  Popular  by  London  in  155  ..] 

T.  26.  Rogerii  Bachonis  summa  seu  opus  tertium  ad  Clementem  P.M.  | 
Eiusdem  Bachonis  majoris  operis  pars  quarta  in  qua  ostenditur 
potestas  mathematicae  in  scientiis  atque  rebus  mundi  huius  | 
Eiusdem  compendium  studii  theologici  |  Liber  praeceptorum 
secundum  Albertum  |  Liber  de  sigillis  solis  in  signis  secundum 
Hermetem  |  Albertus  de  sigillo  et  annulo  leonis  et  eius  virtu- 
tibus  |  Arnoldus  de  Villa  Nova  de  sigillis  duodecim  signorum. 

pap.  f°     =  A.  44  (7  bowght  at  sarrisbury  (/>)). 

\Brit.  Mus.  Tiberius  C.  v.    Bryan  Twyne  mentions  this  MS.  in  MS. 

Arch.  Selden  supra  79, p.  90.    '  Notandum  quod  inter  libros  Doctoris 


Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee      19 

lohannis  Dee  manuscriptos  extitit  opus  minus  Rogeri  Bacon  in 
cuius  fine  habetur  liber  Hermetis  de  sigillis  solis  in  signis.  Et  in 
fine  illius,  Tractatus  Alberti  commentatoris  de  sigillo  et  anulo 
Leonis  et  eius  virtutibus  qui  sic  incipit  Ego  Albertus  commentator 
in  omni  experientia  expertus  etc.'] 

T.  27.  Rogerii  Bachonis  communium  naturalium  libri  duo,  quatuor  sectioni- 
bus  distincti.         perg.  fr.     In  bordes  with  clasps.     =  A.  27,  B.  6 
[Paris.  Bill.  Mazarine  1271.     lo.  Dee,  Kenelm  Digby.~\ 

T.  28.  Alpetraugii  de  verificatione  motuum  coelestium  liber  |  Thebith  de 
his  quae  indigent  expositione  antequam  legatur  Almagestum 
Ptolomaei  |  Liber  florum  Albumasar  |  Liber  experimentorum 
Albumasar  |  Liber  practicorum  geometriae  |  lacobi  Alkindi  liber 
de  aspectibus  |  Petri  de  Dacia  commentum  super  tractatum 
algorismi  |  loh.  de  Sacrobosco  super  tract,  de  sphaera  |  Eiusd. 
computus  ecclesiasticus  |  Wilhelmus  de  Aragonia  in  Ptolomaei 
centiloquium  |  Ars  algorismi  de  fractionibus  |  Scripta  utilia  super 
compotum  manualem  |  loh.  de  Sicilia  in  canones  Arzachelis 
de  tabulis  Toletanis  |  Quaestiones  mathematicales.  perg.  f° 

\Brit.Mus.  Harley  i.    From  St.  Augustine's,  Canterbury,  no.  1147. 
(  John  of  London).     lo.  Dee  1557.] 

T.  29.  Richardi  Walyngforde  Abbatis  S.  Albani  de  scientiis  demonstrandis 
libri  iv.  perg.  f° 

[Bodl.  MS.  Digby  178,  art.  7-10.] 

T.  30.  lohannis  Massoni  monachi  epistolae  |  Epistolae  de  somnio  Pharaonis, 

seu  Pharaonis  et  Joseph  epistolae  |  Alani  Enchiridion  de  planctu 

seu  conquestu  naturae  prosa  et  versu  j  Bernardi  Silvestris  Cosmo- 

graphia.  perg.  4°. 

[Bodl.  MS.  Rawlinson  C.  7.     From  St.  Aug.  Cant.  no.  954.] 

T.  31.  Bartholomei  Anglici  breviarium  seu  de  proprietatibus  rerum  (marg. 

The  boke  of  Physik  &  Chirurge.)  perg.  f°. 

[Brit.  Mus.  Harley  3.    Joannes  Dee  emit  a°  1573  Augusti  3  a  vidua 

Mri  Carye.     From  the  Dominicans  of  London.     See  N.  Moore, 

Medicine  in  the  British  Isles,//,  i.] 

T.  32.  lordani  Nemorarii  c&iXoTex"7?  sive  de  triangulis  liber  primus,  sexaginta 
quatuor  propositiones  continens.  Perg-  4°-  =  A.  7,  B.  16. 

T.  33.  Rabbi  Mosis  liber  de  venenis  |  Summa  brevis  Galeni  de  cura  ethicae 
senectutis  |  Alberti  de  Colonia  tract,  de  incisionibus  arborum  et  de 
plantationibus  earum  |  Unguentum  ad  omnem  scabiem  tollendam 
quod  dicitur  Veni  mecum  etc.  |  Tract,  de  ornatu  faciei  |  Hermetis 
liber  de  septem  planetis  etc.  |  Rogerii  Bachonis  nonnulla  secreta  | 
De  factura  saxonis  Gallici  |  Liber  de  tincturis  pannorum  |  Liber 
de  coloribus  illuminatorum  uel  pictorum  |  De  diversis  operationibus 
B2 


20      Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee 

ignium  |  De  diversis  tincturis  |  Hermetis  secreta  |  Item  tnulta  alia 
notabilia  |  Item  turba  philosophorum.  P^g-  4° 

[C.C.C.  Oxford.  125.  From  St.  Aug.  Cant.,  no.  1277  lf.lf.lf. 
Joannes  Dee.] 

T,  34.  Experimentoium  diversorum  liber  (marg.  Gerlaci  ut  puto)  |  De 
vernisio  quo  utuntur  scriptores  |  Secreta  philosophorum  |  De  usu 
virgae  visoriae  et  huiusmodi  secreta  multa.  pap.  8VO 

\Trin.  Coll.  Camb.  O.  7.  23.  Has  the  name  of  G.  Carew.] 

T.  35.  Arnaldi  de  Villa  Nova  thesaurus  secretus  operationum  |  Hermetis 

liber  de  lapide  philosophorum  |  Alfredi  liber  de  spiritu  occultato  | 

Rasis  practica  |  cum  aliis  viginti  quinque  libris  variorum  autorum 

consimilis  argumenti.  pap.  4° 

\Brit.  Mus.  Sloane  2327.    Joannes  Dee  1559.] 

T.  36.  Ptolomaei  quadripartitum,  Lat.  |  Albumazer  introductorium  |  Isibradi 
calendarium  |  Profacii  Judaei  almanach  |  Zaelis  electiones  |  De 
significationibus  planetarum  cum  aliis  tractatibus.  Perg-  4° 

T.  37.  Expositio  theoricarum  |  Thebith  de  motu  octavae  sphaerae  |  lor- 
danus  de  ponderibus  cum  quaestionibus  notabilibus  super  eundem  | 
lacobus  Alkindus  de  radiis  seu  de  causis  reddendis  |  An  futura 
possunt  per  astra  praesciri  |  Nicolai  Oresmi  liber  divinationum  | 
Thomae  Brarardini  geometria  |  Perspectiva  communis  loh.  de 
Pecham  j  Dominici  de  Hassia  quaestiones  super  perspeciivam 
communem  |  Euclides  de  speculis  |  lacobus  Alkindus  de  umbris 
et  causis  diversitatum  aspectuum  |  Dominici  de  Claraso  practica 
geometriae  |  Demonstrate  aequalitatis  lineae  ad  peripheriam 
circuli  |  Quadratura  circuli  {  Expositio  tractatus  de  sphaera  cum 
quaestionibus  |  Algorismus  in  integris  Joh.  de  Sacro  Bosco  j 
Algorithmus  in  minutiis  loh.  de  Lineriis  |  Thomae  Brarardini 
tract,  proportionum.  (perg.)  =  A.  35. 

\Lost?  Formerly  at  P eter house  :  see  my  Catalogue,  p.  285 :  no.  Hi  of 
the  MSS.  given  to  the  College  by  Roger  Marchall.~] 

T.  38.  loh.  de   Pecham    canticum    pauperum  |  loh.  Walensis    communi- 

loquium  |  Eiusd.  Walensis  dietarium,  locarium,  itinerarium  |  Eiusd. 

breviloquium  |  Tract,  cuius  initium  est  Supra  tribus  sceleribus  \ 

Aristotelis  liber  de  secretis  secretorum.  pefg-  4° 

{Dublin  Trin.  Coll  331.] 

T.  39.  Liber  Physiologi  de  natura  animalium  et  bestiarum.  perg.  8° 

[?  Trin.  Coll.  Camb.  O.  2.  14.  Has  the  mark  lf.1f.U-] 

T.  40.  Gualteri  Burlaei  tract,  de  potentiis  animae.  Perg«  4° 

[C.  C.  C.  Oxford.  293.  6.  Jo.  Dee  1557.] 

T.  41.  Rogerii  Bachonis  perspectiva  |  Eiusdem  de  multiplication  specierum. 

perg.  4".  =  A.  25,  B.  4 


Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee      21 

In  paste  bords  with  strings. 

\_Magd.  Coll  Camb.  Bibl  Pepys  1207.    Jo.  Dee  1554.] 
T.  42.  Tractatuli  tres  de  lapide  philosophorum,  quorum  primi  initium  est 

Dicit  philosophus  etc. 

T.  43.  Vectii  Valentis  Anthologia  (marg.  quare)  |  Aristoxeni  musica 
Alippii  musica  |  Cleomedes  de  mundo  |  Expositio  astrolabii 
Hipparchus  in  Aratum  et  Eudoxum.  Graece  omnes.  pap.  f° 

=  A.  i,B.  10 
[Art.  i  is  Bodl.MS.  Selden  Gr.2O,  the  rest  Selden  Gr.  22.     Mentioned 

by  Sir  H.  Bourgchier  writing  to  Ussher(see  p.  5).] 

T.  44.  Libellus  antiquissimus  de  speculis  comburentibus  (above:  'in  cot- 
toniana ')  cuius  initium  est  De  sublimiori  etc. 

perg.  4°.     =  A.  12,  B.  21. 

[Brit.  Mus.  Vesp.  A.  it.  art.  12.     loannes  Dee  1555.] 
T.  45.  lordanus  de  ponderibus  cum  scholiis  cuius  initium  eSt  Omnis  ponderosi. 

perg.  f° 
T.  46.  Raymundi  Lullii  liber  de  quinta  essentia.  perg.  f° 

[?  C.  C.  C.  Oxford  124.     No  mark,  and  title  not  in  Dee's  hand^\ 
T.  47.  Boethius  de  consolatione  philosophiae  in  Graecam  linguam  conversus 
a  Maximo  Planude  |  Catonis  disticha  cum  scholiis  Planudis  etc. 
Graece  |  Aphthonii  progymnasmata  Graece.  pap.  f° 

1  gave  this  Booke  to  Cracovia  Library  A°  \efi\July  28. 
T.  48.  Porphyrii  philosophi  Isagoge  in  Aristotelis  logicam  Graece. 

pap.  f°.     Cf.  A.  24,  B.  30 

T.  49.  Naupegia  Itali  cuiusdam  cum  figuris.  pap.  4° 

Fr.  50.  Dionysii  Zecharii  opusculum  de  lapide  philosophorum  Gallice. 

pap.  4° 

T.  51.  Roberti  Gloucestrensis  chronica  rythmo  Anglico.  pap.  f° 

(marg. :  '  I  think  it  is  in  ye  Cotton  :  It  beginneth  at  Will:  ye  Conq.') 
[?  Camb.  Univ.  Libr.  Ee.  4.  31.     Contains  the  names  of  Will.  Cliff e 

and  Hugh  Cooke.~] 

T.  52.  Hysteria  Britannicorum  principum  a  Cadowaladro  Rege  ad  Leolinum 

per  Humfredum  Lluyd  collecta,  Anglice.  pap.  f° 

[Bod I.  A  shmole  847.    Given  to  Dee  in  1 5  7  5  by  his  cousin  Oliver  Lloyd^\ 

T.  53.  Variae  compositiones  aquarum  mercurialium  et   alia   experimenta 

chemica  Anglice  cuius  initium  est  He  that  will  make  etc.      pap.  4° 

T.  54.  Varia  experimenta  chimica  Anglice  quorum  initium  est  For  to  make 

white  lead.  perg.  f« 

T.  55.  Alberti   Magni   summa    naturalium   cuius   initium   est  Philosophia 

dividitur.  pap.  4°-     =  A.  19,  B.  28 

[Brit.  Mus.  Harley  536.] 


22      Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee 

T.  56.  Rogerii  Bachonis  annotationes  super  Aristotelis  tract,  de   secretis 

secretorum.  Perg-  f° 

\C.  C.  C.  Oxford  149.     Io.  Dec  1561  Feb.  20  Londim'.~\ 

[57.  JPhillippi  Ulstadii  coelum  philosophorum.  impressum  f°] 

T.  58.  Inventa  quaedam  geometrica.  pap.  1° 

My  mvnehand,  of  Richard  Changlor(ChancylorT)  and  Thomas  Topely. 

[Cf.  C.  C.  C.  Oxford  254.  7.] 

Fr.  59.  Dumbyltoni  summa.  perg-  f° 

[Cf.  St.  Aug.  Cani.  no.  1323-4.    Perhaps  Magd,  Coll.  Oxford  32, 

which  came  from  Brian   Twyne  and  formerly  belonged  to  Clare 

College,  Cambridge.    Clark :  Wood's  Life  and  Times,  iv.  203  note.[ 

Fr.  60.  Beda  de  gestis  Anglorum.  Perg-  4° 

[? C.  C.  C.  Oxford  279,  given  by  B.  Twyne,  without  mark;  or  Trin.  Coll. 

Dublin  492.] 

Fr.  61.  Euclidis  geometrica  |  Rogerii  Bachonis  perspectiva  |  Aristotilis 
problemata  |  Campani  theorica  planetarum.  perg.  4° 

[Articles  2,  3  are  perhaps  Bodl.  MS.  Digby  77.  i,  2.] 

Fr.  62.  Volumina  duo  magna  Hebraice  de  astrologicis  judiciis  |  Alchimia 

Salomonis.  pap.  f°  2  vol.      =  A.  45. 

Fr.  63.  Roberti  Groshed  Lincolniensis  episcopi  Dicta  quorum  initium  est 

Spiritus  sanctus  per  os  Salomonis  etc.  |  Eiusd.  tract,  de  cessatione 

legalium  |  Eiusd.  tract,  de  oculo  morali  una  cum  aliis  variis. 

perg.  f° 

Fr.  64.  Isaac  Judaei  Logica  cum  aliis  variis  consimilis  argument!  Hebraice. 

pap.  40 

65.  Alhazen  perspectiva  etc.  perg.  4° 

John  Davis  spoyle.  Cf.  A.  20-22,  B.  i,  2. 

T.  66.  Ramundi  Lullii  testamentum  |  Eiusd.  cantilena  |  Eiusd.  codicillus 
sive  vade  mecum  |  Eiusd.  anima  transmutatoria  |  Annotationes 
super  testamentum  Ramundi  |  Lapidarius  Raymundi  |  Quaestiones 
de  Paulina  Ramundi  |  Quaestiones  de  Olympiade  Ramundi  | 
Declaratio  tabularum  figurae  5  Ramundi  |  Repertorium  Raymundi  j 
Tract,  de  consideratione  lapidis  |  Philosophia  cuiusdam  Ramundis- 
tae  |  loh.  Dastini  chimici  somnium  seu  visiones  Anglice  |  Ramundi 
Lullii  distinctio  tertia  |  Anima  artis  juxta  exemplar  in  Anglia 
repertum  |  Apocalypsis  spiritus  secreti  (marg.  forte  Alfredi)  |  Ars 
conversionis  Mercurii  et  Saturni  in  aurum  et  argentum  seu  de 
aquis  Theuthidis  |  Aristotelis  lumen  luminum  |  Raimundi  Lullii 
quaestionarius  arboris  philosophalis  |  Quaestionarius  figurae  quad- 
rangularis  |  Quaestionarius  figurae  5  |  Tertia  distinctio  juxta  aliud 
exemplar  |  Aphorismi.  Accurtatio.  |  Practica  secreti  occulti  | 
Opus  magnum  sive  opus  regale  |  Considerationes  operis  minoris  | 
Cantilena  Catalonice  cum  commento  |  Ars  brevis  etc.  pap.  f° 


Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee      23 

[Probably  this  was  the  MS.  sold  at  Sothebys,  lot  160,  17  Nov.>  1902, 
thus  described: 

Lullius  (Raymundus).  Opera  chemica  et  alchemica.  De  lapide 
philosophorum.  De  generatione  et  compositione  metallorum. 
Cantilena.  Liber  prophetiarum.  Magna  Magica.  De  quinta 
essentia.  Testamentum.  Compendium  artis  etc.  MS.  on  Paper 
(319  ff.  11x8  in.)  with  diagrams,  old  calf,  saec.  xv. 
Said  to  have  been  written  in  St.  Bartholomew's  Priory,  London  ;  to 
have  belonged  to  Sir  George  Ripley  (1473),  passing  from  him  to 
Sir  Robert  Greene  of  Welbe  (1523),  a  famous  alchemist,  who  has 
added  some  signed  recipes  ;  from  him  to  Dr.  Dee.  When  the  latter  s 
house  was  sacked,  his  MSS.  were  thrown  into  the  mud,  of  which 
treatment  the  present  one  bears  evidence^ 

T.  67.  Ramundi  Lullii  (above:  Bachonis)  speculum  alchimiae  |  Eiusd.  liber 
de  quinta  essentia  |  Eiusd.  lapidarius  scilicet  de  gemmis  |  loh. 


Dastini  liber  de  compositione  lapidis 
radicum    I    Liber   administrationum 


Eiusd.  donum  Dei  |  Liber 
Eiusd.   Dastini   speculum 


philosophorum  |  Rasis  de  duodecim  aquis  etc.  pap.  f° 

[With  66,  67  cf.  C.C.C.  Oxford  244.     //  has  a  dale  30  Feb.  1584 

(when  Dee  was  out  of  England*).] 

Fr.  68.  Aneti  filii  Abraham  practica  medica  |  Scarsati  practica  medicinalis 
una  cum  aliis.  perg-  4° 

[Cf.  St.  Aug.  Cant.  no.  1248.] 

Fr.  69.  Eathelredi  Abbatis  Rievallis  de  vita  Edowardi  Regis  Anglorum  et 
Confessoris.  Perg-  4° 

[Brit.  Mus.  Harley  200.    Joannes  Dee  1575.] 

Fr.  70.  Robert!  ep.  Lincoln,  tract,  in*  lingua  Romana,  hoc  est  veteri  rithmo 

Gallico  de  principio  creationis  mundi,  de  medio  et  fine  etc.    perg.  4° 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  232.    Has  the  ladder-mark  onf.  i.     Cf.  Lambeth  522, 

which  was  St.  Aug.  Cant.  no.  1510.] 

Fr.  71.  Wilhelmi  de  North  feilde  expositio  super  librum  de  differentia  spiritus 
et  animae  |  Eiusd.  expositio  super  diversa  opuscula  Aristotelis 
phisicorum.  perg.  f° 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  235.] 

Fr.  72.  Mag.  Franconis  regulae  musicales  cum  additionibus  aliorum  musi- 

corum  collectae  a  Roberto  de  Handle  j  Rogerii  Bachonis  perspectiva 

una  cum  aliis  geometricis  et  astrologicis.  Per&-  f° 

[?  Brit.  Mus.    Tiberius  B.  ix.   3-5.      Add.  MS.   4909  is  a  copy. 

Perhaps  from  the  Austin  Friars,  York^\ 

Fr.  73.  Gualtheri  Burlei  notabilia  super  Porphyrii  praedicabilia  et  Aristotelis 
praedicamenta  una  cum  aliarum  notationum  libellis.  pap.  4° 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  230.] 


24      Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee 

Fr.  74.  Boetii  Musica  |  Hermannus  Contractus  de  compositione  astrolabii 

et  de  eius  utilitatibus.  Perg-  4° 

[Brit.  Mus.  Royal  15.  B.  ix.     Contains  a  note  apparently  in  the 

writing  of  Hen.  Fowler,  Rector  of  Minchinhampton  (f.  P.  Gilsori).] 

Fr.  75.  Chronica  de  imperatoribus,  seu  compendium  historiarum  in  (a?) 

prima  monarchia  Babiloniorum  in  annum  Christi  1266  |  loh.  de 

Bononia  summa  pontificum  Romanorum  et  imperatorum  in  annum 

Christi  1313  |  Alexandri  Magni  ortus  et  res  gestae.  P61"?-  4° 

[Cf.  Dublin  Trin.  Coll.  448  from  Thorney  Abbey.'] 

Fr.  76.  Wilhelmi  Wodford  ordinis  Minorum  opusculum  quaestionum  qua- 

rundam  contra  dialogum  loh.  Wycklyf  a  Thoma  Cantuar.  archiep. 

condemnatum  |  Thomas  Palmere  tract,  de  imaginibus  cum  aliis 

variis.  pap.  4° 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  i83,//.  //,  art.  5.] 

77.  Collectanea  quaedam  chimica  Siberti  Rhodii.  pap.  f° 

Fr.  78.  Roberti  Holcot  quaestiones  super  iv  libros  Lombardi  sententiarum  | 
Eiusd.  quaestiones  de  astronomia.  Perg-  4° 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  138.] 

Fr.  79.  Arnaldi  de  Villa  Nova  liber  de  alchimia  cuius  initium  est  Scito  fili 
quod  in  hoc  libro  una  cum  aliis  eiusdem  opusculis.  pap.  4° 

[Trin.  Coll.  Camb.  O.  2.  47.     J.  Dee  on  f.  i.] 

Fr.  80.  Ethici  philosophi  cosmographia  per  D.  Hieronymum  Stredonem  Lat. 
conversa.          perg.  f°    (Marg.,  lined  through :  I  had  two  of  this.) 
[(Cf.  no.  9.)    ?  Dublin  Trin.  Coll.  371  from  Christ  Church,  Canterbury, 
no.  137.     //  has  the  mark  Wty.] 

8 1.  Rogerii  Bachonis  epistolae  tres  sive  scripta  tria  ad  loh.  Parisiensem, 

in  quibus   latet   sapientia  mundi  |  Kalid   Rex   ad   Morienum  | 
Gebri  et  Avicennae  chimica.  pap.  4° 

82.  Euclidis  elementorum  geometricorum  libri  decem  |  Eiusd.  perspectiva 

etc.  Lat.  pap.  4° 

[?  Bodl.  MS.  Savile  19,  but  this  is  on  vellum.] 
Fr.  83.  Alhazeni  perspectiva,  libri  septem  Lat. 

perg.  f°.     Cf.  A.  20-22,  B,  i,  2. 
[C.C.C.    Oxford    150,   marked   ipp^..       Old  press-mark    M.  u. 

Formerly  belonged  to  Clare  College,  Cambridge^ 

84.  De  fabrica  speculi  ustorii  fragmentum  |  Urso  de  effectibus  qualitatum 

primarum  |  Liber  vaccae  |  Alberti  dona  |  Thomas  aquinas  de 

essentiis  rerum.  PeTS-  4° 

[Bodl.  MS.  Digby  7 1 .     Urso  is  noted  as  '  transcriptus  manu  J.  D. 

1557,  30  Maii',  ended  '  4  funti'J] 

Fr.  85.  Ricardi  Hampole  liber  qui  dicitur  Incendium  amoris  Anglice.    perg.  f° 
[C.C.C.  Oxford  236.     Bought  from  Leland.] 


Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee      25 

86.  Alhazeni  perspectiva  Lat.  |  Item  Alfraganus  etc.  Lat. 

perg.  f°.     =  A.  26,  B.  3. 

Fr.  87.  Albumazar  de  judiciis  astrologicis.  perg.  f° 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  248.     From  St.  Aug.  Cant.  1145.     Ladder-mark.'] 

88.  lacobi   Fabri   Stapulensis   conclusiones   phisicae  etc.  ex  Aristotele 

excerptae.  pap.  f° 

89.  loh.  Eschindi  summa  Anglicana  seu  medicinalis. 

perg.  f°.     =  A.  40.     [Bought  from  Leland.] 

Fr.  90.  Bartholomaeus  Anglicus  de  proprietatibus  rerum.     perg.  f.  grandiori. 
[C.C.C.  Oxford  249.     Joh.  Davy  of  M.  Aldon   1545.     Has  the 
ladder-markl\ 

91.  lordani   Nemorarii   arithmetica  cum  commento  j  Algorithmus   in 

integris  loh.  de  Sacrobosco  |  Algorithmus  in  minuciis  loh.  de 
Lineriis  |  Campani  theorica  planetarum  |  Nicholai  Oresmi  tract, 
de  proportionibus  proportionum.  Marg.  scripsit  Bacon  de  propor- 
tione  etc.  |  lordani  tract,  de  commensuratione  coelestium  |  Ger- 
vasii  algorithmus  proportionum  |  Demonstrationes  conclusionum 
astrolabii  |  Tract,  de  torqueto  et  eius  usu  |  Tabulae  Alfonsi 
regis  Castellae  |  Canones  tabularum  Alfonsi  per  loh.  de  Saxonia  | 
loh.  de  Lineriis  canones  tabularum  primi  mobilis  |  lacob  Alkindus 
de  impressionibus  ae'ris  |  Rogerii  Bachonis  de  utilitate  arithmeticae  | 
Campani  compostus  ecclesiasticus  |  lordani  algorithmus  demon- 
stratus,  perg.  f°.  =  A.  32. 
\Magd.  Coll.  Camb.  Bibl.  Pepys.  2329.  Formerly  at  Peter  house  I\ 

92.  Helinandi  Monachi  Cistercien.  chronicorum  mundi  libri  xxx  hoc  est 

pars  prima.  Per&-  f° 

\?Brit.  Mus.  Claud.  B.  ix.     Has  JD  onf.  138  a.] 

93.  Francisci  Catanei  Diacetii  paraphrasis  in  Aristotelem  de  coelo  etc. 

perg.  f°.     =  A.  29,  B.  8. 

Fr.  94.  Isidori  Hispalensis  liber  de  natura  rerum  cum  glosulis  |  Prisciani 
institutio  |  Bedae  versus  de  die  iudicii.  Perg-  4° 

\Brit.  Mus.  Domitian  A.  i.  From  St.  Aug.  Cant.  no.  434.] 

Fr.  95.  Tract,  de  figuris  stellarum  in  octava  sphaera  |  Gebri  libri  novem  de 
astronomia  |  Almagesti  libri  sex  abbreviati  |  lordani  libri  de 
triangulis  |  Plures  conclusiones  Almagisti  abbreviati  |  Archimedis 
liber  de  curvis  superficiebus  |  Tract.  Albeonis  |  Tabula  pro  locis 
planetarum  |  Tract.  Zaphei  Arzachelis  etc.  |  CapituL  libri 
Almagesti  |  Compendium  musices  ex  Boetio  |  Kuclidis  elementa 
geometrica  |  Gebri  conclusiones  de  astronomia  |  Theodosii 
sphaerica  |  Milei  de  figuris  sphaericis  et  triangulis  libri  tres  | 
Tabulae  planetarum  de  radicibus  et  motibus  |  Machumeti  Bagdedim 
liber  divisionum.  (Marg:  A.  Curaui  imprimi  Urbini  in  Italia  per 


26      Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee 

Fedricum  Comandum  exemplari  descripto  ex  vetusto  isto  Monumento 
per  meipsum.)  \  Tract,  de  quinque  corporibus  regularibus  |  Tract. 
de  speculis  comburentibus  |  Tabula  domificandi  pro  latitudine 
Oxonians,  j  Tabulae  plurium  latitudinum  secundum  Bachecumbe.  | 
Thebith  tract,  de  motu  j  Tract,  de  proportione  circumferentiae 
circuli  etc.  |  Tabulae  quatuor  solis.  P^g-  f° 

[/y    this    Vatican.  Regin.   1151  ?  (Montfaucon,   Bibliotheca   Biblio- 
thecarum.)] 

96.  Rogeri  Bachonis  tract,  de  virtutibus  et  actionibus  stellarum.    pap.  4° 

97.  Vitellionis  perspectiva.  Perg-  f°-     —  A.  33. 
[Bodl.  Ashmole  424.     From  Pelerhouse,     Has  a  note  by  Dee  on  the 

exchange  with  Peter  house  (1564),  and  also:  P.  Saunders  1606  a 
Domino  Hypsly^\ 

98.  Theodosii  sphaerica  [  Euclidis  data  Lat.  |  Archimides  de  quadratura 

circuli.  perg.  4°.     =  A.  9,  B.  18. 

Fr.  99.  Haly  de  judiciis  astrorum.  perg.  f°.     =  A.  41. 

[C.C.C.  Oxford    151.      Formerly    al    Peterhouse.      Bought  from 


Fr.  100.  Boetius  de  consolatione  philosophiae  cum  commento  |   Scripta 

super  plures  libros  geometriae  |  lordanus  de  speculis  |  lordanus 

de  ponderibus  |  Archadii  demonstrationes  de  quadratura  circuli  | 

Tract.  Hermanni  de  astrolabio  |  Liber  de  similibus  arcubus  j 

Archimedes    de    figuris    isoperimetris   |  Archimedes    de    curvis 

superficiebus.  Pero-  4° 

[Bodl.  MS.  Digby  174.     From  St.  Aug.  Cant.  no.  987.] 

Fr.  101.  Avicenna   de    prima    philosophia    i.e.   de    causa   causarum,   vel 

metaphisica  Lat.  perg.  4° 

Fr.  102.  Alhazeni  perspectiva.  Perg-  4°-     Cf.  A.  10,  20-22,  B.  19. 

Fr.  103.  Ricardi  de  Posis  (Pophis)  summa  epistolarum  (quasi  ars  quaedam 

notariatus)  secundum  consuetudinem  Romanae  curiae.       perg.  f° 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  55.     No  mark.] 

Fr.  104.  Arzachelis  tabulae  astronomicae.  perg-  4° 

[?  Gonv.  and  Cams  456.     St.  Aug.  Cant.  no.  1  150.] 
105.  Chronicon  Angliae  Anglice  manuscriptum.  P6^-  f° 

[?  Dublin  Trin.  Coll.  506.] 
1  06.  Aristotelis  commentum  in  astrologiam  (fragmentum  quoddam). 

perg.  4« 
Fr.  107.  Alberti  Magni  minerarium.  Perg-  4° 

\Cf.  St.  Aug.  Cant.  no.  1077.] 

Fr.  1  08.  Haly  de  iudiciis  astrorum  j  Liber  novem  iudicum  in  astrologia  j 
lafar  de  imbribus  |  Messahala  de  nativitatibus  |  Aristotelis  liber 
de  iudiciis  universalibus  |  Hani  Benhannae  liber  de  geometria  | 
Guido  Bonatus  de  astrologia.  pap.  f°  magno. 


Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee      27 

\Bodl.  MS.   Savile  15.      Ladder-mark.     loannes  Dee  1564.     P. 

Saunders.] 

Fr.  109.  Algorithmic  integrorum  cum  commento  |  Algorithmus  fractorum 
cum  commento  |  Summa  utriusque  arithmeticae  Boetii  |  Arith- 
metica  compilata  ex  multis  scientiis  |  Liber  de  figuris  numero- 
rum  |  Practica  memorandi  |  Tract,  de  speculo  combustorio 
sec.  sectionem  Mukesii  |  Euclidis  geometricorum  libri  15  cum 
commento  |  Archimedes  de  curvis  superficiebus  cum  commento  j 
Archimedes  de  quadratura  circuli  cum  commento  |  Archimede(s) 
de  figuris  ysoperimetrorum  j  Theodosii  sphaerica  j  Rob.  Lincoln, 
ep.  de  luce  calore  et  iride  |  Vitellionis  perspectivae  libri  quatuor. 

perg.  (o     =  A.  37 

[Borrowed from  Queen's  College,  Oxford.] 

Fr.  no.  Rob.  Lincoln,  ep.  Constitutiones  pro  sua  diocesi  videl.  in  decalogum 
etc.  perg'  f° 

[?  Bodl.  MS.  Barlow  2.] 
Fr.  in.  Perspectiva  Algazet,  forte  Halazen.  Lat.  Perg-  4U 

Cf.  A.  20-22,  B.  i,  2. 

Fr.  112.  Annales  regulorum  Cambricorum  a  Cadowaladro  ad  Leolini 
tempora,  lingua  Brytannica  sive  Cambrica.  pap.  4° 

Fr.  113.  Perquisita  et  alia  quae  pertinebant  ad  Winchecumbe  Abbatiam. 

perg.  40 
\?  Brit.  Mus.   Cleop.  B.  ii.     Sir  John  Button  had  a  register  of 

Winchcomb  Abbey.     Hearne,  Coll.  viii.  329.] 

Fr.  1 1 4.  Boetii  arithmetica.  perg.  4° 

{Lambeth  67.    From  Bury  St.  Edmund's.    1558,  30  Mail,  Londim] 

Fr.  115.  Quaestiones  erudite  disputatae  super  librum  meteororum  Aristotelis. 

perg.  40 

Fr.  1 1 6.  De  Indorum  et  Persarum  annis  astronomicis  |  Annotationes  in 
Martianum  Capellam.  perg.  4°.  =  A.  28,  B.  7 

Fr.  117.  De  potentiis  animae  |  Auberti  Remensis  philosophia  |  Oliveri 
philosophia  |  Petrus  Hispanus  de  morte  et  vita  et  causis  longi- 
tudinis  et  brevitatis  vitae  |  Albertus  de  divinatione  |  De  spiritu  et 
inspiratione  |  De  sign  is  aquarum  ventorum  et  tempestatum  | 
Ramundus  Massiliensis  de  cursu  planetarum  |  Alexander 
Aphrodiseus  ad  imperatores  Antoninum  et  Severum  de  fato  j 
Quaestiones  de  intellectu  |  Quaestiones  de  anima  |  Her  nannus 
Secundus  de  essentiis  |  Platonis  Phaedon  sive  de  anima  |  Com- 
mentum  super  Platonis  Timaeum  |  Platonis  Menon.  Lat. 

perg.  f» 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  243.  Belonged  io  Humphrey,  Duke  of  Gloucester, 
1557  a  moy  lehan  Dee,  que  ie  achetay  par  le  pays  pay  ant  pour 
chacune  lettre  (?  livre)  un  grosJ\ 


28     Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee 

Fr.  118.  De  administratione  principum  liber.  P^g-  4° 

[St.  Johns  Coll,  Camb.  12,  Pt.  //.] 

Fr.  119.  Isidori  Hispalensis  etymologiarum  fragmentum  magnum,     perg.  f° 
Fr.  1 20.  Tabulae  astronomicae   ad  annos   decem  cum  canonibus  |  Algo- 
rithmus   demonstratus    cum   minuciis  |  Alfraganus    de   annis 
Alcabicii    astrologia  |  Tabulae    de    numeris    proportionalibus 
Computus  cum  calendario.  Perg-  4° 

\St.  Aug.  Cant.  no.  1154.] 

121.  Polychronica.  P^g-  *° 
[Queen's  Coll.  Oxford  307.     St.  Aug.  Cant.  no.  936.     Given  by 

Dee  to  Blomefelde  (?vice  versa)  in  1561.] 

122.  Polychronica.  P^g-  f°  minori. 
[St.  John's  Coll.  Camb.  12,  Pt.  I.     lo.  Dee  1573  Nov.  13.] 

Fr.  123.  Hystoriae  Britannicae  et  Anglicae  fragmentum  Gallice  conscriptum. 

perg.  4« 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  293.  3.     Title,  as  above,  in  Dee's  hand^\ 

Fr.  124.  Guido  Bonatus  de  iudiciis  astrorum.  perg.  f° 

Fr.  125.  Passionale.     desunt  quaedam.  perg.  f° 

126.  Astronomici    libelli   cuiusdam  fragmentum  cuius   initium   est   A 

philosophis  astronomiam  sic  definitam  accepimus.  Perg-  4U 

Fr.  127.  Expositio  quaedam  super  Cantica  Canticorum  |  Ars  fidei  secundum 

Ambionensem.     Is  cut  out  and  to  be  answered  for.  |  Macrobius 

in  Somnium  Scipionis.  perg-  f°-p 

p  Austin  Friars,  York.'] 

Fr.  128.  Matricula  sive  catalogus  bibliothecae  Cantuariensis.  pap.  f° 

[Dublin  Trin.  Coll.  60.     St.  Augustine's,  Canterbury^] 
Fr.  129.  Author  de  causis  cum  demonstrationibus.  Pero-  f° 

Fr.  130.  Alchimicus  libellus  Anglice  cuius  init.  est  Take  limale.  pap.  4° 

131.  Libellus  chimicus  Latine  |  Varii  tractatus  super  capitulum  Hermetis 
quod  dicitur  Clavis  Sapientiae  Maioris.  P6^-  f° 

Fr.  132.  Sidrach    philosophi    liber    Gallice.     Anglice   nomine   Sidrach   et 
Bocchus  excusus  carmine.  perg.  4° 

JV  C.C.C.  Oxford  293.  i.     The  volume  contains  other  Dee  books.] 
Fr.  133.  Kalendarium  |  Quaedam    de    computu    ecclesiastico    Latine    et 

Saxonice  |  Alphabetum  somniale  |  Preces  quaedam  piae. 
p  Brit.  Mus.  Vitellius  E.  xviii  (burnf)  or  Julius  A.  r/.] 
134.  Lectiones  cuiusdam  super  Ecclesiasten.  perg.  f° 

[See  on  152.] 

Fr.  135.  Commentarius  bonus  in  definitiones  quinti  libri  Euclidis  |  Euclides 

totus  ex  Campani  traditione  |  Explicatio  bona  Archimedis  de 

quadratura  circuli. 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  234.     /.  Dee  1557.] 


Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee     29 

Fr.  136.  Cicero  de  natura  deorum  |  Catonis  liber  ad  Varronem  |  Euclidis 
liber  cum  commento  |  Praeceptum  canonum  Ptolomaei  |  Tract, 
astrolabii  duplicis  cum  practica  |  Tabulae  astronomicae  |  Ari- 
stotelis  epistola  de  rectiludine  vitae  ad  Alexandrum  |  Henrici 
Britton  philosophia  |  Oliveri  Britton  philosophia  |  Philosophia 
Remensis  et  aliorum  |  Liber  de  speculis  j  Liber  de  visu  et 
quaedam  alia.  Perg-  4° 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  283.  From  St.  Aug.  Cant.  no.  1009.] 

Fr.  137.  Boetii  arithmetica  |  Eiusd.  de  Trinitate  libri  |  Eiusd.  de  duabus  in 
Christo  naturis  |  Eiusd.  de  hebdomadibus  |  Rob.  Grostesti 
Lincoln,  ep.  de  arte  algorismi  communi  |  Eiusd.  alius  tract, 
magis  in  speciali  |  Thebith  super  Almagistum  Ptolomaei  j 
Theodosius  de  locis  habitabilibus  |  Theoria  planetarum  cum 
tabulis  necessariis  |  Commentum  super  Centiloquium  Ptolomaei  | 
Ars  cheiromantiae  in  Gallico  sermone  |  De  interpretationibus 
somniorum  |  De  significationibus  tonitruorum  |  Physiognomia 
sec.  Thomam  Aquinatem  |  De  prognosticationibus  tempestatum  | 
De  pluribus  necessariis  ad  casus  inquirendos  sec.  algorismum  j 
Cheiromantia  Lat.  Perg-  4°-  =  A.  n,  B.  20. 

{Dublin  Trin.  Coll.  441.  lo.  Dee  1553  Jan.  18.] 

Fr.  138.  Astronomica,  astrologica,  et  arithmetica  |  Observationes  quaedam 

planetarum  et  fixarum  Petri  de  Sancto  Audomaro  et  loh.  de 

Lineriis.  perg.  4°.     =  A  31,  B.  34 

[Dublin  Trin.  Coll.,  now  lost.     From  St.  Aug.  Cant.  no.  1148  or 

»58.] 

Fr.  139.  Tabulae  astronomicae  cum  canonibus.  perg.  8° 

[Dublin   Trin.   Coll.   444.     From   St.   Albans.     lo.   Deeus  1553, 

28  Ian.  ex  dono  Alri  Doctor  is  quondam  Abbatis  S.  Albanil\ 
140.  Libellus  de  natura  locorum.  Perg-  8° 

Fr.  141.  Ivonis  Carnutensis  varii  tractatus  ecclesiastici,  et  volumen  episto- 
larum  diversorum  ad  diversos  etc.  perg.  f° 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  137.] 

Fr.  142.  Boetii  Musica  |  Expositio  Simonis  de  Bredon  super  duos  libros 

arithmeticae  Boetii.  perg.  4° 

[C.C.C.   Oxford  118.     lo.   Dee  1573.     Also:   Robert  Grene   de 

Welbe.} 
Fr.  143.  Calcidius  in  Platonis  Timaeum.  perg.  4"  long. 

[Brit.  Mus.  Royal  12.  B.  xxii.     Jo.  Dee  1557  4  Mail  Londini.'] 
Fr.  444.  Marii  de  elementis  libri  duo  |  Liber  qui  dicitur  Prenonphysicon  j 
Alardi  Bathoniensis  quaestiones  naturales  |  Physiognomia  sec. 
tres  authores  videl.  Loxum  Aristotelem  et  Palemonem  |  Liber 
spermatis  |  Soranus  de  re  medica  j  Constamini  liber  de  herbis 


3°      Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee 

Dioscorides  de  virtutibus  herbarum  Lat.  j  Oribasius  de  virtutibus 
herbarum  Lat.  |  Odonis  Adunensis  versus  de  virtutibus  herbarum  | 
Isidori  Hyspalensis  etymologiarum  libri  |  Constantini  Medici 
liber  graduum  |  Euphonis  experimenta  |  Adamarii  experimenta  | 
loh.  Melancholici  experimenta  |  Experimenta  Abbatis  |  Experi- 
menta Wiscardi  |  Experimenta  Picoti  |  De  urina  mulieris  j 
Expositio  quintae  incisionis  epidemiarum  Hippocratis  |  loh. 
Melancholici  liber  de  substantia  urinae  j  Palladius  de  agricultura  j 
Liber  de  simplici  medicina.  perg.  f° 

\jBrit.  Mus.  Galba  E,  iv,  pi,  II,  from  Bury  St.  Edmunds,  contains 

the  first  six  articles  :  the  rest  are  gone. ,] 

Fr.  145.  Alberti  Magni  magia  naturalis  et  vera  |  Idiotae  liber  authore  Cusano  j 
Contra  lacobellinos  in  Bohemia  |  Antonii  Barsizii  Cauteriaria, 
comedia,  una  cum  aliis  variis.  pap.  f° 

[Bodl.  MS.  Savile  55,  except  Art.  i.] 

Fr.  146.  Aristotelis  physicorum  libri  octo  j  Eiusd.  de  generatione  et  cor- 
ruptione  lib.  2  |  De  coelo  et  de  mundo  libri  4  |  Meteor(or)um 
libri  4  |  De  vegetabilibus  etc.  De  anima  libri  tres  |  De  memoria 
et  reminiscentia  |  Ethicorum  secundus  et  tertius  |  De  morte  et 
vita  et  alia  eiusd.  Aristotelis  Latine.  perg.  4° 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  in.     Ladder-mark  on  f.  i.] 
147.  Serapionis  de  aptatione  et  repressione  seu  servitor  Serapionis. 

perg.  f<> 

Fr.  148.  Thomae  de  Aquino  de  veritate  theologica  libri  septem.       perg.  4° 
[?  Trin.  Coll.  Camb.  O.  8.  30.] 

149.  Alberti  Magni  tract,  de  lapidibus  |  lacobus  Alkindus  de  radiis. 

pap.  f° 

150.  Historia  Anglica  cuiusdam  anonymi.  pap.  4° 
[Cf.  Dublin  Trin.  Coll.  506.] 

Fr.  151.  Euclidis  optica  catoptrica  et  geometria  Lat.  perg.  4° 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  251.  Has  ladder-mark  on  f.  i.  From  Leeds 
Priory,  Kent.\ 

Fr.  152.  Fragmentum  theologicum  quodclam  in  Ecclesiastes.  pcrg.  f° 

\?  C.C.C.  Oxford  239.  Has  TpM.  on  the  fly-leaf ':  cf.  134.] 

153.  Tract,  astrolabii   |  De  significatione  rei  occultae   i  De  ae'ris  dis- 

positione  |  Tabula  pro  almanack  J  Ars  notariatus  |  Aristotelis 
epistola  de  conservatione  sanitatis  |  Rogeri  Herefordensis 
computus  |  Compositio  astrolabii  j  Planisphaerium  j  Alfraganus  | 
Geber  in  Ptolomaei  almagestum  una  cum  aliis.  perg.  4° 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  233.     From  St.  Albans.~] 

154.  Apologia  chemicae  artis  contra  Cornelium  Agrippam  de  vanitate 

scientiarum  |  De  oleis  variis  medicinalibus  una  cum  aliis  multis. 

pap.  4° 


Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee      3* 

155.  Alcabicius  j  Astronomia   quaedam   iudicialis  |  Zahelis   introducto- 

rium  cum  iudiciis  sequentibus  j  Mathematica  Alexandri  summi 

astrologi  I  lacob  Alkindus  de  iudiciis  astrologicis  |  Albumazar 

de  revolutionibus  annorum  mundi  |  Summae  excerptae  ex  libro 

Albumazar  de  revolutione  nativitatum    Albohali  de  nativitatibus  | 

Albumazar  liber  florum  |  Almanack  perpetuum  Profacii  ludaei. 

Thomas  Aquinas  de  angelis.  perg.  4° 

\Bodl.  Ashmole  369.     Contains  Dee's  name.] 

Fr.  1 56.  Lamentationes  Mathaeoluli  carmine.  perg-  4° 

\?Brit.  Mus.  Chop.  C.  tx.~] 

Fr.  157.  Hippocratis  aphorismi  |  Eiusd.  prognostica  |  Eiusd.  liber  de 
regimine  acutorum  |  Eiusd.  liber  epidemiarum  |  Eiusd.  astro- 
nomia  de  infirmitatibus  |  lohannicii  Isagoge  in  Galeni  Tecknin  | 
Hyppocratis  secreta  I  Tract,  de  compositione  astrolabii  |  Tract, 
de  compositione  novi  quadrantis  |  Campani  tract,  de  motibus 
planetarum  et  de  fabricatione  equatorii  instrumenti  per  quod 
certa  loca  planetarum  inveniuntur  |  Petri  Perigrini  tract,  de 
magnete  |  lordani  liber  planisphaerii  |  Euclidis  liber  de  speculis 
lordani  tract,  de  ponderibus  |  Practica  geometriae. 

perg.  40.     =  A.  42. 

\Dublin  Trin.  Coll.  403.     Bought  from  Le/and.] 

Fr.  158.  Rogerii  Bachonis  calendarium  |  Tabula  ad  sciendum  quis  planeta 
dominetur  omni  hora  cuiuslibet  diei  |  Tabula  multiplicationis  j 
Liber  de  naturis  rerum  abreviatus  |  Marbodeus  de  sculpturis 
gemmarum  |  Liber  de  lapidibus  filiorum  Israel  |  Hippocratis 
signa  in  infirmo  |  Unguentum  alabastri  |  De  modo  faciendi 
olei  |  De  aquis  mundificativis  oculorum  faciei  et  aliorum 
spiritualium  membrorum  |  Depilatoria  |  Ut  pili  nascantur  ubi 
volueris  |  De  conservatione  vini  |  Gregorii  dialogorum  liber 
primus  et  secundus  |  Vita  S.  Nicholai  |  Vita  S.  Aegidii. 

perg.  4° 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  221.    From  St.  Aug.  Cant.  no.  1170.] 
Fr.  159.  Computus  ecclesiasticus  |  Beda  de  calculatione  |  Computus.  perg.  4° 

[>St.  Aug.  Cant.  no.  1128.] 

Fr.  1 60.  Wilhelmi  de  Conchis  philosophia.  perg.  4° 

[St.  John's  Coll.  Camb.  171.      From  St.  Aug.  Cant.  no.  1485. 

lo.  Dee  1557  4  Maii .  .  .  Londim'J] 

Fr.  161.  Quaestiones  super  elenchos  et  alia  logicalia.  pap. 

Fr.  162.  Quaestiones  de  apparentiis  seu  fallaciis  sophisticis  manuscriptae. 

pap. 
[C.C.C.  Oxford  228.] 


32      Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee 

163.  Albert!  de  Saxonia  tract,  proportionum  4°  impressus  Rothomagi  | 

lac.  Lupi  tract,  de  productionibus  personarum  in  divinis  sec, 
mentem  |  loh.  Scoti  4°  impressum  |  una  cum  aliis  tractatibus 
variarum  quaestionum  papyro  manuscript.  4° 

[Also  in  C.C.C.  Oxford  228.] 

164.  Henrici  Beaumundi  regimen  sanitatis  cum  aliis  variis  experimentis 

tarn  Anglice  quam  Latine  scriptis.  P61"?-  4° 

[New  College,  Oxford,  MSS.  166,  167  are  medical  books  once  owned 
by  Henry  Beaumundl\ 

165.  Avicenna  de   naturalibus  |  Eiusd.   de   sufficientia  |  Thomae   de 

Aquino  tract,  de  essentia  |  Avendauth  de  quinque  universalibus  | 
Alchindi  philosophi  de  quinque  essentiis  ex  verbis  Aristotelis 
abstractus  liber  |  Platonis  Timaeus  |  Isaac  de  diffinitionibus 
Lat.  |  lacob  de  rationali  in  anima  |  Alexandri  Philosophi  de 
intellectu  et  intelligibili  liber  Lat.  |  Algacelis  logica  |  Alchindus 
de  intellectu  et  intellecto  j  Amaometh  liber  introductorius  in 
artem  logicam  demonstrationis  j  Averrhois  de  substantia  orbis  | 
Alfarabius  de  intellectu  et  intellecto  |  Liber  planetarum 
cuiusdam  discipuli  Ptolomaei  |  MercuriusTrismegistus  |  Secundus 
Philosophus  de  diffinitionibus  |  Boetius  de  unitate  |  Liber  de 
differentia  spiritus  et  animae  forte  Athelardi  |  Liber  metaphisicae 
Avicennae  qui  non  est  completus 

Fr.  1 66.  De  philosophia  Salomonis  |  Fulgentius  ep.  ad  Calcidium  gram- 

maticum  |  Experimenta  quaedam  alchimica  |  Cassiodorus  de 

anima  una  cum  aliis  theologicis.  perg.  8° 

[Brit.  Mus.  Royal  7.  D.  ii.   From  St.  Aug.Cant.no.  415.    Io.Dee.~\ 

Fr.  167.  Boetii  arithmetica  |  Theorica  planetarum  et  stellarum  sec.  Alfra- 
ganum  |  Boetii  musica  |  Euclidis  geometrica  |  Propositiones 
planisphaerii  Ptolomaei  cum  additionibus  Maslem  arabis. 

perg.  4» 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  224.     From  St.  Mary's,  Fork.     Has  the  ladder- 
mark  on  f.  i  and  notes  in  Dee's  hand^\ 

1 68.  Disputatio  inter  militem  et  clericum.  perg.  4° 

\?  St.  John's  Coll.  Camb.  1 60,  pt.  /.] 

Fr.  169.  loh.  Scoti  quaestiones  super  2°  et  3°  libro  Aristotelis  de  anima 

Antonii  Andreae  quaestiones  in  Aristotelis  meteora.         pap.  4° 
[C.C.C.  Oxford  227.     No  mark] 

Fr.  170.  Isidori  Hispalensis  liber  differentiarum  |  Ciceronis  academicae 
quaestiones  |  Eiusd.  natura  deorum  |  Eiusd.  de  divinatione  | 
Eiusd.  de  fato  |  Eiusd.  paradoxa  |  Eiusd.  Philippicae  orationes  | 
Libellus  de  bestiis  avibus  et  arboribus  |  Salustius  de  bello 
Catilinario  et  lugurthino  |  Vegetius  de  re  militari  etc.  perg.  4° 


Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee     33 

171.  Computus  ecclesiasticus.  perg.  8° 
\Cf.  St.  Aug.  Cant.  no.  1127.] 

172.  Solinus  de  mirabilibus  mundi.  Perg-  4°-     =  A.  14,  B.  23. 
[?  Dublin  Trin.  Coll.  425.] 

173.  Bona  gesta  Mariae  |  Malchus  etc.  perg.  16° 
\The  Malchus  of  Reginald  of  Canterbury  is  in  Laud  Misc.  40  and 

500,  and   Vesp.  E.  Hi.      Laud  Misc.   40   is  from  Rochester. 

Cf.  St.  Aug.  Cant.  no.  1494.] 

Fr.  174.  Sortilegia  nugatoria.  perg.  8° 

175.  Sortilegia  nugatoria.  Perg-  4° 

Fr.  176.  loh.  Sarisberiensis  policraticum  sive  de  nugis  curialium  et  vestigiis 

philosophorum  libri  octo.  perg.  4° 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  222.] 
Fr.  177.  Compotus   manualis  |  cum    aliis    sexaginta    quinque    tractatibus 

variorum   autorum   in   medicinalibus   physicis  astronomicis  et 

aliis.  perg.  8° 

178.  Gebri  summa  alchimiae.  perg-  4° 
[?  Bodl.  Ashmole  1384.] 

179.  Hermetis  cuiusdam  libellus  de  rebus  universalibus.  perg.  4° 
Fr.  1 80.  Imago  mundi  cuius  initium  est  Operatio  divina.                    perg.  4° 

{Trin.  Coll.  Camb.  O.  8.  6.  Marked  Tflj.  and  'fuit  D.  loannis 
Dee'.  Between  181  and  182  is  written:  Vbi  Ciceronis  libri 
aliquot  manuscripti.  //  must  refer  to  1 80.] 

Fr.  1 8 1.  Thomae  Bravardini  Anglici  propositiones  (above:    proportiones) 

geometriae.  perg.  4°.     =  A.  16,  B.  25. 

[?  Vatican.  Regin.  1161  (Montfaucon)  or  Bodl.  MS.  Digby  76,  ff. 

IIO-I2O.] 

182.  Macer  de  virtutibus  herbarum.  P61"^  4° 

Fr.  183.  Libellus  medicinae  et  chirurgiae   partim   Latine  partim  Anglice 

partim  etiam  Gallice.  pe>'g-  16° 
[C.C.C.  Oxford  135.     Has  Dees  hand  in  //.] 

184.  Ramundi  Lulii  practica  chimica  Anglice.  pap.  4° 
[Brit.  Mus.  Sloane  2128.     loannes  Dee  1577.] 

185.  Alchimica  :  videlicet  tres  tractatus  alchimici  Volvi  lapidem  etc.  |  De 

quinta  essentia  Mercurii  |  Secretum  secretorum  Fieri  philosophi. 

perg.  4° 

Fr.  1 86.  Roberti  Lincoln,  ep.  de  luce,  de  iride  cum  multis  aliorun  tract, 
circiter  34.  Perg-  4°-     A  thik  boke  with  a  labell. 

\lBodl.  MS.  Digby  104.] 

Fr.  187.  Libri  diversi  astrologici  quorum  primi  init.  est  Postulata  a  Domino 
(the  first  words  of  the  Introductorium  of  Alchabitius).    perg.  4° 
{Bodl.  MS.  Ashmole  191,  II.] 

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34      Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee 

Fr.  1 88.  Roger!  Bachonis,  Morieni  Romani,  loh.  Viennensis,  Alberti  Magni, 
Hermetis,  Rasis,  Hortolani,  chimica  quaedam.  Perg-  8° 

\Trin.  Coll.  Camb.  O.  7.  35.     Has  a  corresponding  note  of  contents 
in  Dee  s  handl\ 

189.  Speculum  secretorum  cum  aliis  baud  contemnendis  chemicis  frag- 

mentis.  perg.  4° 

190.  loh.  de  Sacrobosco  sphaera  |  lohannicii  glosulae  cum  aliis  tracta- 

tibus  |  Rogeri  Bachonis  et  Rob.  Lincoln,  ep.  etc.  perg.  4° 

Fr.  191.  Libellus  chimicus  cuius  init.  est  Materia  lapidis.  pap.  8° 

192.  lacobi  Alkindi  de  pluviis,  imbribus,  ventis,  et  de  mutatione  aeris. 

pap.  f° 
Fr.  193.  Liber  duodecim  aquarum  etc.  Perg-  4° 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  277.] 

Fr.  194.  Aegidii  de  Wallecers  computus,  de  cometis,  de  crepusculis  |  Tabulae 
domorum  et  ascensionum  |  Kallendarii  errores  |  lo.  de  Pecham 
perspectiva  communis  |  30  Arabes  qui  dicuntur  Magistri  proba- 
tionum  |  Tract,  minutiarum  una  cum  aliis.  P61"?-  8° 

\Bodl.  Ashmole  341.     From  St.  Aug.  Cant.  no.  1130.] 
195.  Abraham  ludaei  liber  de  iudiciis  nativitatum  cum  aliis  variis. 

pap.  4" 

Fr.  196.  Albertus  de  mineralibus  cuius  init.  est  De  mixiione  et  coagulatione 
etc.  |  Rogerii  Bachonis  epistola  prima  ad   loh.   Parisiensem  | 
Summa  aurea  una  cum  multorum  aliorum  tractatibus.     perg.  4° 
In  a  blak  cover  with  clasps. 
\Bodl.  MS.  Digby  119.     /.  Deeus  1581.] 

Fr.  197.  Ludus  astronomicus.  pap.  8° 

Fr.  198.  Parisiensis  (marg.  forte  loh:)  liber  cuius  init.  est  Augustinus  de 
civitate  Dei  etc.  pap.  4° 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  231.] 

Fr.  199.  Pomum  Ambrae  |  Trotulae  de  ornatu  mulierum  |  Ascarus  Philo- 

sophus  de  signis  mulierum  |  De  secretis  mulierum   cum  aliis 

experimentis  |  Theophilus    Monachus    de    coloribus  |  Eraclius 

de  coloribus  et  artibus  Roman.  |  Quaedam  experimenta  medica 

cum  aliis  superstitiosis  |  Compositio  et  usus  astrolabii  una  cum 

aliis.  Perg-  8° 

\Cf.  Brit.  Mus.  Egerton  823,  840*  {formerly  Trin.  Coll.  Camb. 

R.   15.   15).     From  St.  Aug.  Cant.  no.   1599.     Their  contents 

correspond  to  Arts.  5  sqq.  of  the  above  list.] 

[Among  the  printed  bocks,  under  the  title  Chemici  Libri  etc.  com- 

pacti,  occur  these  manuscripts^ 

200.  Ramundi    Lulii    ars  generalis  cum   quaestionibus  eiusdem  j  De 
medi(ci)na  et  astronomia  eiusdem  |  Speculum  medicinae.        4° 


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201.  Ramundi  Lulii  ars  magna  cum  figuris  |  Eiusd.  ars  generalis  cum 
quaestionibus  |  Eiusd.  introductorium  sive  canones  artis  gene- 
ralis |  Eiusd.  de  principiis  et  medicinae  gradibus  |  Eiusd.  de 
regiminibus  sanitatis  et  infirmitatis.  f° 

[C.C.C.  Oxford  247.  Has  the  ladder-mark  and  the  name  of 
P.  Saunders] 

[There  follows  in  Halliwell's  book,  pp.  87-9,  Elias  Ashmole's  list 
(from  MS.  Ashmole  1720)  of  such  of  Dee's  MSS.  as  had  come 
to  his  hands.  They  are  all  records  of  his  intercourse  with  spirits, 
and  have  no  bearing  on  our  present  subject.] 

Of  other  MSS.  which  certainly  or  probably  belonged  to  Dee, 
and  do  not  occur  in  the  Catalogue,  I  have  noted  the  following 
in  various  collections  :  but  I  have  little  doubt  that  the  list  is 
incomplete. 

Helmingham  Hall,  Suffolk.     Lord  Tollemache's  Library. 

The  Lauderdale  MS.  of  Alfred's  Orosius  is  recorded  to  have  belonged 
to  Dee,  but  his  name  is  not  to  be  found  in  it. 

Lambeth  Library. 

598,  pt.  III.  Creton's  poem  on  the  deposition  of  Richard  II  has  the 
note  '  John  Dee  1575  gave  for  this  boke  a  boke  of  the  foundation  of 
(blank)  in  Oxfordshire '. 

London,  British  Museum. 

Sloane  2325,  paper,  cent,  xv,  ff.  33.     loannes  Dee  1557  beginning: 

Many  a  regyon  &  centre  y  haue  y  sowte. 
Stowe  1070,  paper,  cent,  xv-xvi,  ff.  74. 

loannes  Dee. 

Patricius  Saunders  i6o6(?) 

G.  Theophanes  (=  Tiffin)  1730. 

R.  Farmer. 
It  contains  some  fourteen  alchemical  tracts,  of  which  the  first  are — 

1.  Tract.  Nicholai  Comitis. 

2.  Summa  Platonis. 

3.  Speculum  Alkimie  Rog.  Baconis. 

And  the  last  is :  Dialogus  inter  Naturam  et  filium  philosophic. 

Oxford,  Bodleian  Library. 

Ashmole  1451,  pt.  II,  a  paper  MS.  of  66  ff.  in  English  and  Latin, 
of  alchemical  tracts  mostly  by  Brixham  with  marginalia  by  Dee, 

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36      Manuscripts  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  John  Dee 

1 492,  pt.  I,  a  paper  MS.  of  6  ff.    lo.  Dee  1 569.    Opus  expertum  Parisiis 

.  .  .  1540. 
Digby  192  (Raymund  Lull)  Ars  demonstrativa  ;  has  a  note  of  Dee's  of 

1576. 
218,  art.  3.     Bacon's  Opus  Minus  according  to  Twyne  belonged  to  Dee. 

Oxford,  Corpus  Christi  College. 

65.  Tacuinus,  from  Twyne,  has  some  notes  of  accounts,  perhaps  in 

Dee's  hand. 
1 01.  Ptolemy,  etc.,  has  a  note  on  f.  i  by  Dee  (?)  and  at  the  end  a  letter 

of  Casimir  of  Poland  to  Cracow  University. 
127,  128.  From  Twyne;  bound  together:  Bacon  de  erroribus  medi- 

corum  and  some  alchemical  tracts :  may  be  Dee's,  but  have  not 

his  hand  in  them. 
1 34.  Life  of  St.  Oswin ;   from  Twyne :  marked  y. ;  but  belonged  to 

Savile  of  Banke. 
136.  Collectanea  Alchemica,  Latin  and  English;  belonged  to  Dee  in 

1559- 
144.  Astronomica,    Alanus    de    Insula,    G.   Vinsauf:    from    Twyne. 

Came  from  Tynemouth  Priory  (as  also  134). 
148.  Bacon's  Greek  Grammar:  from  Twyne. 
152    has  the  ladder-mark  and  belonged  to  Dee:  see  Wood's  Life  and 

Times,  iv.  266-7.     It  contains  works  of  Nic.  Kratzer. 
153.  lo.  Dastin,  etc. :  from  Twyne. 
185    has  the  ladder-mark  and  apparently  Dee's  hand  on  the  verso  of 

a  fragment  of  a  will  at  the  end.     Contents  alchemical. 
191    is  Dee's  note-book :  see  above. 
223    has  the  ladder-mark.     Bacon,  Urso,  etc. 
226.  Marbod,  etc.,  partly  by  the  scribe  of  227  (see  above,  no.  169): 

has  a    note  'Receyved  at  Manchester  by  Col.   Arnold  from 

Mistres  Marie  Nevel  1597  ^ec-  *7  '• 

237.  Life  of  S.  Katherine,  etc.,  in  English  verse :  has  the  ladder-mark. 

238.  Alchemical  (Rosarium,  Ortolanus,  Morienus,  etc.). 
242.  Lydgate's  Fall  of  Princes :  ladder-mark. 

250.  In  Ciceronis  Rhetorica,  etc. :  ladder-mark  and  If.. 

252.  Romance  of  Marques :  ladder-mark. 

276    has  1J.TJ.1J..     Bernard  de  Gordonio. 

278.  Mesue,  etc.:  ladder-mark. 

290.  Aristotle's  Metaphysics :  ladder-mark. 


LIST   OF   MANUSCRIPTS   NOTICED 


The  sign  vac.  means  that  the  MS.  in  question  is  not  in  Dee's  own  catalogue, 
but  in  the  supplementary  list  which  follows  it. 


Cambridge 

University  Library 
Ee.  4.  31  =51? 
Colleges 

Gonville  and  Cams 

456  =  104? 
Magdalene 

Pepys  1207  =  41 
„       2329  =  91 
Peterhouse 

Lost  =37 
St.  John's 

12  =   Il8,   122 

160=  168 
171  =  1 60 

Trinity 

O.  2.  14  =  39? 
O.  2.  47  =  79 
O.  2.  50  =  3 
O.  7.  23  =  34 
O.  7.  35  =  '88 
O.  8.  6  =  180 
O.  8.  30=  148 
R.  15.  15,  see  on  199 

Cheltenham 

Phillipps  16345  =  13 
Cracow 

University,     47  given  to. 


Dublin 

Trinity  College 
"5  =  7 
33i  =  38 
360  =  128 
371,  cf.  80 
381,  cf.  23 

403  =  !57 
425,  cf.  172 

44i  =  137 
444  =  139 

448,  cf.  75 
492,  cf.  60 
506,  cf.  105,  150 
lost=  138 
Glasgow 

Hunter  U.  4.  11  =  4 
Helmingham 

No  number  vac. 
Lambeth 
67  =  114 
522  =  70? 
598  in  vac. 
London 

British  Museum 
Cotton 

Julius  A.  vi,  cf.  133 
Tiberius    B.  ix,  cf.  72 
C.  v  =  26 


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List  of  Manuscripts  noticed 


British  Museum  :  Cotton  (contd.) 
Claudius    B.  ix  =  92 

D.  x,  see  Preface 
Galba        E.  iv  (ii)  =144 

E.  vii  =  25 

Vitellius     E.  xviii,  cf.  133 
Vespasian  A.  ii  =  44  and  A.  15 

A.  x  =  10 

B.  x  =  9 

E.  Hi,  cf.  173 
Domitian   I  =  94 
Cleopatra  B.  i,  cf.  113 

C.  ix  =  156 

Egerion  823,  84Oa  =  199 
Harley  i  =  20 

3  =  3i 

200  =  69 

536  =  55 
Royal  7  D.  ii  =  166 

12  B.  xxii  =  143 

15  B.  ix  =  74 
Sloane  2128  =  184 

2325  vac. 


Siowe  1070  vac. 

Manchester 

Chetham  A.  5.  24,  cf.  19 

Oxford 

Bodleian  Library 

Ashmole  191  n=  187 
341  =  194 

369  =  155 
424  =  97 
847  =  52 
1384=  178? 
1451  ii  vac. 
1471  =  24 
1492  i  vac. 
Barlow  2  =  no? 


Digby  71  =  84 

76  =  181  ? 

77  =  61  ? 
104,  cf.  1 86 
119  —  196 
174  =  100 
178  =  i,  29 
192  vac. 
218  vac. 

Laud  Misc.  40  =  173 
Rawlinson  C.  7  =  30 
Savile  15  =  108 

18  =  5 

19  =  82? 

55  =  M5 
Selden  gr.  20,  22  =  43 

supra  94  =  19 
Colleges 

Corpus  Chris ti  41  =  14 

55  =  103 
65  vac. 
101  vac. 
in  =  146 
118  =  142 

124  =  46? 

125  =  33 
127,  128  vac. 

130  =  12 

134  vac. 

'35  =  183 

136  vac. 

137  =  141 

138  =  78 
144  vac. 

148  vac. 

149  =  56 

150  =  83 

151  =  99 

152  vac. 

153  vac. 
183  H  =  76 


List  of  Manuscripts  noticed 


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Oxford :  Corpus  Christi  {conld.) 
185  vac. 
189  =  8 
191  vac. 

221  =  158 

222  =  176 

223  vac. 

224  =  167 

225  =6 

226  vac. 

227  =  169 

228  =  162,  163 

230  =  73 

231  =  198 
232,  cf.  70 
233=  i53 

234  =  i35 

235  =  7i 

236  =  85 
237,  238  vac. 
239,  cf.  152 
242  vac. 

243=  "7 
244,  cf.  67 

245=  " 

247  =  2OI 

248  =  87 

249  =  90 


Oxford  :  Corpus  Christi  (contd!) 

250  vac. 

251  =  151 

252  vac. 

254,  artt.  7,  8,  cf.  19,  58 

276  vac. 

277  =  193 

278  vac. 
279,  cf.  60 

283  =  '36 
290  vac. 

293  =  40,  123,  132 
Magdalen  32  =  59? 
New  College  166,  167,  cf.  164 
Queen's  307  =  121 

borrowed  from  109 

Paris 

Bibl.  Mazarine  1271  =  27 

Rome 

Vatican  Regin.  1151,  cf.  95 
1 161,  cf.  181 

Sotheby's 

Sale  17  Nov.  1902 
lot  1 60  =  66 


ADDITIONAL   NOTE 

Dee's  own  account  of  the  pillage  of  his  library,  and  of  its 
value,  is  to  be  found  in  the  '  briefe  note  and  abstract '  of 
his  career  (drawn  up  in  1592)  which  is  printed  by  Hearne 
in  Joh.  Glastoniensis  (II.  500).  Here,  on  p.  529,  we  read  :— 

'  The  divers  bookes  of  my  late  library,  printed  &  anciently  written, 
bound  &  unbound,  were  in  all  near  4000 :  the  fourth  part  of  which  were 
the  written  bookes.'  He  values  them  at  £2,000.  'And,  to  make  this 
valuation  probable  unto  your  Honour,  behold  yet  here  these  four  written 
bookes,  one  in  Greek,  this  great  volumn  ;  two  in  French  ;  and  this  in  High 
Dutch.  They  cost  me  and  my  friends  for  me  533lib<  .  .  .  What  is  then  to 
be  thought  of  the  value  of  some  one  hundred  of  the  best  of  all  the  other 
written  bookes,  of  which  some  were  the  autographa  of  excellent  &  seldome 
heard-of  Authors?  The  furniture  of  the  said  library  was  of  my  getting 
together  in  above  40  yeares  time  from  divers  places  beyond  the  seas,  & 
some  by  my  great  search  and  labour  gotten  here  in  England '.  He  then 
gives  some  account  of  his  mathematical  instruments,  and  of  two  collections 
of  Irish  and  Welsh  deeds  (the  latter,  apparently,  rescued  from  a  half-ruined 
church).  On  p.  534  he  values  his  lost  books  (above  500) — '  I  mean  such  as 
may  be  gotten  for  money' — at  above  £150. 

I  cannot  tell  what  the  four  MSS.  were  which  he  produced 
as  a  sample  ;  but  the  price  paid  for  them  is  enormous  ;  and 
the  catalogue  of  the  MSS.  shows  that  in  1583  he  did  not 
possess  much  over  200  MSS.,  whereas  here  he  reckons  them 
at  1,000.  I  doubt  if  we  can  trust  his  figures  ;  but  the  extract 
deserves  to  be  quoted,  and  the  *  abstract '  to  be  read. 


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